The memory comes flooding back: “Dis-miss! Fall out!” The thud of hundreds of hard rubber boot soles hitting rough asphalt; perhaps a shout. The sun setting on red South Carolinas clay and scrub pine woods and faded cream-colored World War II barracks.

I am sure STJ Jennifer E. (“Publius”) Siegel is haunted by no such recollections. I am likewise sure she neither gave nor heard the aforementioned order nor the consequences thereof. But perhaps some archetypical collective memory has stirred the following in Eric Gile & Melinda Gile, Docket No. 7142-25S, filed 6/24/26 (Happy Palindrome Week!).

“ORDERED that so much of respondent’s motion that seeks to dismiss petitioner Eric Gile for lack of prosecution is granted, and he is so dismissed.” Order, at p. 1.

Don’t Tax Court petitions get dismissed, and not people? Can Tax Court give Eric get the Psalm 109:13 treatment? Might I most respectfully suggest the Order be rewritten as follows? “ORDERED that so much of respondent’s motion that seeks to dismiss the petition herein as to petitioner Eric Gile for lack of prosecution is granted, and all references in said petition to Eric Gile are stricken.”