That is not what courtrooms are. But she held, for two hours, and when she came off the stand she walked past the defense table without turning her head.

The correction came in November, eight months later, and it did not make the news.

A Department of Defense review board reissued the findings on the valley. The operational-boundary determination was withdrawn. Corporal M. Ellis’s statement was expunged from the record as procedurally invalid.

Contributing causal factor was amended to include *materiel failure — ballistic plate, ceramic, non-conforming lot.*

Eleven names. The board reads them into the record when it reissues findings; it’s in the procedure.

I was in the gallery. I had no role. My clearance was gone, my testimony was eight months behind me, and I sat in the fourth row of a hearing room in Crystal City next to a woman from Ohio whose son was the fourth name, and neither of us said anything, and when it was over she squeezed my hand very hard for about two seconds and left.