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David Cox

Year
1994
Where
Massachusetts
Source
Wikipedia
Evidence
1
What the record says

David Vernon Cox (November 27, 1966; died 1994) was a U.S. Marine who was found killed in Medfield, Massachusetts. Aaron Sorkin's 1989 play A Few Good Men and its 1992 film adaptation were based partly on events that Cox was a part of while he was in the Marines.

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