The Region : Navy Plans Miller Appeal

The Navy said it will appeal a federal court order to expunge a letter of censure from the record of former Marine Corps Col. Edison Miller, a former Vietnam prisoner of war who was accused of collaborating with the enemy. Miller, once an Orange County supervisor and now a Santa Ana lawyer, said he welcomes the chance to see the case “crammed down their throat.” Miller, shot down over North Vietnam in 1967, was censured by former Navy Secretary John Warner in 1973 for allegedly accepting favors from his captors; the censure was upheld by Warner’s successor, John Lehman, in 1982, despite two unanimous Navy Board of Corrections recommendations to the contrary. Miller was appointed in 1979 by then-Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. to the Board of Supervisors but lost his seat in his first election.