“Governmental actions should be neither secret nor unjust. . . . If we cannot get justice through the courts, every newspaper in the United States shall have the facts as we have them and then see what the opinion of the world will be.” Rosa Brant Sutton A Soul on Trial Rowman & Littlefield (2007)…
The influence of a gaping and curious public can have no effect on the conduct of the Judge Advocate in this matter. . . . The hallowed grave of a dead son is no more sacred than the grave of a military reputation and there are a great many military reputations at stake in this…
For all the details about this case see the website home page, and the tabs for A Soul on Trial. http://www.robinrcutler.com Was Rosa Sutton the first mother to challenge the military over the death of her son in a courtroom? Probably; scholars and reviewers have all said this is a unique story. (See Press tab.) But…
For the American press and its readers, Rosa Sutton came to represent every mother who had lost a son in the military and sought the facts about his fate. This dilemma resonates as strongly today as it did in the decade before World War I. — [A Soul on Trial pg. 303] It is ironic…
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