VIRGINIA GINNY MILLER (Maud Winchester), in A Few Good Men, was the maternal aunt, and closest living relative, of Private First Class Louden Downey USMC. When her dear late sister's boy was arrested and charged with murder in the death of a fellow Marine, she had her brief exposure to the Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Nav...
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VIRGINIA GINNY MILLER (Maud Winchester), in A Few Good Men, was the maternal aunt, and closest living relative, of Private First Class Louden Downey USMC. When her dear late sister's boy was arrested and charged with murder in the death of a fellow Marine, she had her brief exposure to the Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Navy.And to two officers who would become her dear friends. One was Lt.-Cdr. JoAnne Galloway USN, Special Counsel for Internal Affairs. She it was who first contacted Mrs. Miller with the dreadful news. She prevailed upon Galloway to take some comic books to her nephew while he was in the Washington Navy Yard brig.The second was Lt. (jg) Daniel A. Kaffee USN. Almost certainly, Commander Galloway told her this was the son of Lionel Kaffee, who served as Attorney General of the United States before the all-too-soon end of his life. Young Lt. Kaffee at first struck her, quite simply, as a fresh-faced kid. I was expecting someone older, he said to her at their first meeting on the first day of the trial. So was I, she answered.But toward the end of the trial she would forget she'd ever held such a low opinion of Kaffee, this after he relentlessly cross-examined Louden's platoon leader, First Lieutenant Jonathan James Kendrick USMC, and then Louden's commanding officer, Col. Nathan R. Jessup USMC. Incredibly, Kaffee got Col. Jessup to acknowledge, indeed blurt out, that Louden had done what he did at Col. Jessup's order. The complete change in the demeanor of the judge advocate, Captain Jack Ross USMC, and of the judge, Col. Julius Randolph USMC, would have been worth the price of admission even without the stakes being so dreadfully high.Louden was kicked out of the Marines, but at least Aunt Ginny had him back home with her. And for that she remained forever grateful to Daniel Kaffee and JoAnne Galloway and to their colleague, Lt. (jg) Sam Weinberg USN.
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