What My Grandmother's Testimony Taught Me

My grandmother told her testimony the same way every time, in the same quiet voice, whether she was talking to one person or a hundred. No dramatics. Just an account of what happened, said plainly, because the facts didn't need decoration.

That taught me something about what a testimony actually is. It's not a performance. It's a witness statement — and the most convincing ones are usually the calmest, because the person telling them isn't trying to convince you. They're just telling you what they saw.