<p>Come on, mom. You know that the mids, being the time management experts that they are, were only catching a few ZZZZZs BEFORE the speech. I think they had to be in place in Alumni Hall some ungodly amount of time early.</p>
<p>I too thought last night was fantastic. Good speech. Great setting. Amazing publicity for the academies. I am sure that, if he did not initially have their undivided attention, he did so after his remark that some of them would be over there. Where better to do it? And I think it is great to drive home to the American people that it is just not the poor kid from across the railroad tracks who is being placed in harm’s way but also our ‘best and brightest’.</p>