Mary Kay Delvo

Speaker, Trainer, Catalyst & Coach #INspiringSIGHT

[Mary Kay Delvo @mkaydelvo]

@WydRomanX S

[Mary Kay Delvo @mkaydelvo]

@mnwildPR he is in good company

[Mary Kay Delvo @mkaydelvo]

@RussoHockey not sure i understand. So. if I am a Prime member I still have to pay a Prime video subscription of $19.99 mo. Then you say, I can watch it on cable station. So...can I watch all games on cable or just the 10 Nationally televised games. What station can I watch all Wild games on?

[Mary Kay Delvo @mkaydelvo]

@Gini_220 1881

[Aaron Gleeman @AaronGleeman]

I've seriously never seen anything like this. And the Twins have needed all the help they can get today.

[Mary Kay Delvo @mkaydelvo]

@Gini_220 her life

[Mary Kay Delvo @mkaydelvo]

@play_win_today @GinoHard_ @RussoHockey what job have you ever been in that you didn't make 1 mistake?

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

In 1943, Paris - a woman sits in a Gestapo interrogation room, her feet bleeding, her body broken.

The officers across from her know she's holding secrets. Names of British agents. Locations of resistance safe houses. Intelligence that could dismantle entire networks across France.

They've already started the torture. Her toenails are being removed, one at a time. Soon they'll use heated irons on her back. They'll lock her in darkness for weeks. They'll promise her life in exchange for just one name.

She's a 30-year-old mother of three. Not a soldier. Not a spy by training. Just a French-born housewife who was living quietly in England until Hitler's armies swallowed her homeland.

That's when Odette Sansom made a choice that most of us will never have to make. She left her three daughters behind and volunteered for Britain's Special Operations Executive, the shadow organization built to sabotage Nazi operations from within.

The SOE didn't want career military. They wanted people who could disappear into occupied territory. People who spoke native French. People willing to accept that capture likely meant torture and execution.

Odette knew the odds. She volunteered anyway.

By 1942, she was operating in occupied France under the codename "Lise," coordinating resistance cells, organizing sabotage, funneling intelligence back to London. She worked alongside Captain Peter Churchill, building networks that struck at German supply lines and communications.

For months, they were ghosts. Then a collaborator sold them out.

Now she's in this room. In this chair. Facing men who have perfected the art of breaking human beings.

And here's what they don't understand: Odette Sansom has already decided she won't break. Not for pain. Not for promises. Not even to save her own life.

Because she knows that every name she gives means another agent tortured. Another resistance fighter executed. Another family destroyed.

So she gives them nothing. Through months of interrogation. Through agony most of us can't fathom. Through solitary confinement and death threats.

Nothing.

The Gestapo eventually realizes they can't break her. They send her to Ravensbrück concentration camp, condemned under "Night and Fog" protocol, prisoners meant to vanish without trace.

She survives more than a year there by convincing the commandant she's related to Winston Churchill. It's a complete lie, but it keeps her alive.

When Allied forces arrive in 1945, that same commandant tries using her as a bargaining chip. The moment they reach American lines, Odette identifies him as a war criminal. He's arrested on the spot.

Britain awarded her the George Cross, the highest civilian honor for courage. The citation was clear: for refusing to betray her comrades despite torture that would break nearly anyone.

Then in 1951, someone stole the medal from her home. Months later, it arrived in the mail with an anonymous note. The thief had researched what it represented and couldn't live with keeping it.

Even criminals recognized what that medal meant.

Odette Sansom Hallowes lived to 82, spending decades honoring fallen comrades and embodying quiet strength. She always insisted she'd simply done what anyone should do.

But that's not true. What she did was extraordinary. She proved that the most powerful resistance to tyranny isn't violence. It's the absolute refusal to break, no matter the cost.

📷© Imperial War Museums (Restored & Colorized)

© Daughters of Time

#drthehistories

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Good point.

[Mary Kay Delvo @mkaydelvo]

@SenWarren This isn't about the money, it's about the power and further protecting Trump's reign on all things America.

[Viking Nation #MinnesotaStrong #Resist @VikingNation28]

🤣😭💜💛

[Mary Kay Delvo @mkaydelvo]

@waterboyhenniga @AbduleDaud @EdKrassen I honestly want to understand what drives your belief that this is ok in a 1st world country built on humans rights and the constitution that framed those rights? Who will be left to stand up for you when it this situation comes closer to you?

[Mary Kay Delvo @mkaydelvo]

@waterboyhenniga @AbduleDaud @EdKrassen There is no reason this should have been a life threatening situation. If ICE stuck to the job of detaining illegal & criminal immigrants from their informed list, there would be no need for protests, in fact the majority of people wouldn't even know it is happening.

[Mary Kay Delvo @mkaydelvo]

@RussoHockey Class act.

[Mary Kay Delvo @mkaydelvo]

@RussoHockey Maybe it's time for the Wild to examine their sports medicine and training team for it's effectiveness. There might be a story there @RussoHockey.

[Mary Kay Delvo @mkaydelvo]

@B_Marsh92 I just got a virus going to NHL 66. it locked down my computer

[Mary Kay Delvo @mkaydelvo]

@bomba_sota @RussoHockey @JoeSmithNHL where is your faith? you are not a real fan if you only believe in best case scenarios

[Mary Kay Delvo @mkaydelvo]

@MarneyGellner my heartfelt sympathies to you on the loss of your father. I grew up in Langdon, knew your fathers' family & grew up with your cousins. You make ND proud.

[Mary Kay Delvo @mkaydelvo]

@NikkiMarie_p @MarkDParrish Keep going @MarkDParrish. You are one of my faves.

[Michael Russo @RussoHockey]

Coyotes make it official and sign Logan Cooley to his ELC. BIG loss for the Gophers