Talked the talk
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- February
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Interesting story on military.com about an Army Reservist in Utah who was sentenced to five months in prison for wearing medals he didn’t earn and telling tall tales about his previous service. His BS apparently helped him get a promotion to Major before he was found out.
You can see the story HERE.
This guy has taken it to the extreme, but I think most of us have known vets or people claiming to be vets who spin stories about military exploits that never happened or didn’t really happen the way they were told.
A couple of years ago my friend and colleague Phil Reisman wrote about a local WWII vet who told a vivid story about his experience at Iwo Jima that turned out to be fantasy. Here’s that column.
In both of these cases the guys telling the lies really did serve in combat. How sad that they felt a need to embellish records they should have been proud of.
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on Friday, February 22nd, 2008 at 11:41 am by Rich Liebson.
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