Family Demanded Everything in Court—Then Military Police Stormed In When I Handed the Judge a File 😱 The courtroom felt colder than any tarmac I ever stood on. Fluorescent lights hummed above wood polished to a mirror, and the gallery whispered the way people do when they’re waiting for a spectacle they hope is polite. I sat in a dark navy dress—no ribbons, no medals—just my name and twenty years of service no one in that room wanted to acknowledge. Across the aisle, my mother held my brother’s