APOLOGIES AND CLARIFICATIONS:

Some websites do not accept apologies. Once a fraud, always a fraud - posted for life. The NETWORK will MOVE a posted individual to this page when an apology has been received. NO EXCUSES, NO REASONS (we've heard them all) - an honest apology. Should that individual be reported AGAIN after his apology, his apology is voided, and he is reposted on the Heroes or Villains lists. 

For those listed here - and still complaining that you are - you lied. This is the consequence of YOUR actions. 

Many lie for DECADES - and some families only find out about the lies at their death. Grief and lies! What a legacy.

You can change that. ADMIT you lied. Be HUMAN instead of a fraud, liar, phony, wannabee.

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Delusions of Grandeur is a false belief that one is more important or powerful than they really are. It is often associated with Psychosis (an inability to correctly evaluate reality).    The term is often used as a slur by ignorant or malicious people. PTSD is not a psychosis. Personality traits and character flaws are usually set in childhood.  PTSD people do not lie any more than anyone else.

July 6, 2009

I was reading through the page of "Apologies and Clarifications" when I noticed something very strange. There are 2 almost identical apologies, given by 2 different people.
It was easy for me to spot because I read the entire page from bottom to top, and when I got to Mr. David's letter, I knew I had read those same words not too long before.
I am almost positive that Mr. David's apology was simply copied and "adjusted" by Mr. Klein. However, I would rather you read it for yourself.

I have copied and pasted the listings in question below, simply for ease of reading. The first listing was near the top of the page, and the second was closer to the middle.

SEE  the first (original) apology letter:

David, David L.C. - CA/AZ  (claiming ALL of the above) - VFW -- EXPOSED

And, SEE  the second, ... :

KLEIN, JOHN 06/2008 Long Island Amityville.


I'm not sure why this has bothered me so much that I am writing to you about it. Maybe it's because of the irony of using a stolen apology to be forgiven of stealing another's honor. 
Whatever it is, how sincere could he possibly be having copied someone else's apology and using it as his own?

I'm not even sure anything can or will be done at this point, but it upset me enough that I couldn't let it go unnoticed.

Anyhow, thank you for all that you do to honor our Service members, and to put the liars to shame. My husband is currently Active Duty in Naval Special Warfare (I have no reason 
to lie and can give you his info if need be), and I would hate to see someone leech on his honor without rightfully earning it themselves.

signed.....

ALBERT, JACK  -  HAS BEEN RETURNED TO THE LISTING OF FRAUDS AND PHONIES - 04/25/2005
From: SpartanMkt@aol.com
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:54:28 EDT
Subject: Part one Russ Battiato
Mr. & Mrs. Shantag,
  Opener - I am sorry for the delay but the last few days have been very busy, I found from the VA the last operation active duty gave me from an injury sustained at the Q course came apart and will be re done most likely this week.   
 I would like to personally apologize to you for this getting off on the wrong foot to resolve this issue. My over cellist attorney friend took a hard line approach to this instead of a cool get the facts out and across.
As you could see the records you had were very out dated and some of this could have been avoided just by bringing them to your attention. I HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE !  I am VERY proud of the 15 plus years I served on the B-Team and Training Detachment also that I was selected at almost 44 years old as Don put it Alpha males often don't back down.
As for me signing off on an email with the SF retired, all I meant is my last unit of assignment is and always will remain HHC 2nd Bn 20th SF Group. But I can see how it is mis understood and I WILL NOT USE IT AGAIN. I spoke to the current commander CW3 Gunther Orth and he will also write me a letter of support. He is away at Bragg right now so it could take afew days.
Just a suggestion, as you can see had I been contacted when this first came out I would have been more then happy to address it right away and supply you copies of any out of date records you did not have. It took a year for someone to tell me this existed.  I am sure you come across all types of wacko's but as you can see I had even sat with Don at the National Convention held at Chp 64 of which I worked very hard as a founding member.
In any even, I am happy we have all come together and resolved this I must add Don is TRUE PROFESSIONAL.
The next email will directly address the questions.
 
Again, I thank you and support your efforts.
 
Respectfully
 Russ Battiato

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I would like to address this to all TRUE PROFESSIONALS, anything that was said that could have lead to the mis understand that I had earned my tab that is not so.
I do not claim to have been involved with Task Force Ranger "Black Hawk Down" . I did know some of the brave men who did served that faithless day and in fact I stood grave side for SFC Randall Shughart as well as act as a founding member of Chapter 64 in his memory. I have stayed active thru the years with the chapter to include help arrangement for Jump operations at many of the All Airborne Days and National conventions.
I am very proud to say for the last Fifteen plus years I served on the B-Team and Training Detachment.
 I am also proud of the fact I have the dubious distinction of being almost 44 years old when I successfully completed SFAS.   Starting the Q course shortly after my 44th birthday I was injured while on operations and medical dropped. Just prior to my return to the Q my leg was crushed by a Harley causing the med board to retire me. Leaving me a 97%er, but still very proud of my service with the TRUE PROFESSIONALS as a member of the B-Team.
Again, I am sorry my records were outdated for you to check, and I did not mean to offend any 11BPS or 18 series.
 
 
Respectfully
Russell A. Battiato  11BP

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Don,
  Again thank you for your kind words and guidance. I am sorry I am not as and eloquent writer as you. I hope I address everything needed, believe me from the bottom of my heart. I love and respect all that you and the other Quite Professionals have done. I would NEVER want to tarnish the image of the Tab or loose respect for myself trying to steal the respect that tab brings.
As I stated in our conversation I gave up my Staff Sgt willingly to stay in the SF community, that to me id dedication and devotion.
 
Should the letter to POW Net not be what you would accept please  advise with some suggestions and I would be willing to re write it.  As you said I am very proud of the years I served with the TRUE Professional while assigned to the B-Team and it will stay with me til my last breath.
 
Again, I respect you the Shantag's and all you stand for.
 
 
Respectfully
  Russ
AIRBORNE!
 
PS ... I attached afew pics from the 2002 leapfeast, B Co 2nd Bn Team took third place, I was very proud to be a part of that team. I was the only member of the B team to qualify for the jump team.

Braddock, James #
aka Col. James Braddock, South Carolina

1997 - 2nd report 04/2002

POW/Green Beret/covert ops--Claims Chuck Norris movie was about him... held 8 days, TDY 1st CAV, escaped, records burned in the St. Louis Fire....

07/23/02
Received by mail 08/03/02

To Whom it May Concern:

Pursuant to our conversation on July 16, 2002, I, James L. Braddock, declare that I have never been held as a Prisoner of War. I regret and apologize for any anguish or inconvenience
 this misunderstanding might have caused.

(Signed) James E. Braddock
7-23-02

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UPDATE - 08/2006. No apology was ever received Braddock's Medal of Honor claims - found in the newspaper. He reportedly denies ever claiming to have said he
was captured or a MOH.

Brannon, Dan
aka
Brannan, Daniel L 		 11/2002
12/2005		 Claims Green Beret, Prisoner of War

Claims Special Forces 1967-1970. Has claimed Vietnam POW, CMOH, PH. Has a green beret he claims is his from the war.  As usual he claims covert ops. Claims escaped and returned to kill his guard with chopstick while helping other POW escape!!

Union President

From: "Dan Brannan" <dan@danbrannan.com
To: <info@pownetwork.org
Subject: My name on your website
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:03:59 -0500

Just recently I became aware of your website, this only after a friend of mine emailed and let me know that my name was posted with some details that recount a story that I told about my Vietnam military days.  Since then I have gone to the site and read about myself and many others all that have been essentially called liars and frauds.  I have also read several apologies most of which I can tell were done in anguish and shame. 

While what appears on the website does capture the details of a story that I told one night over twenty years ago it does not by any means tell a story about me.  And I would suspect that this is true of nearly all of those whose names appear on this site.  If the others are like me I would guess that most of us know, understand, and have to live with the fact that lying about ourselves did far greater damage to us as individuals than it ever did to anyone else.  Although my claims to be a POW,  Medal of Honor winner, who served in the Special Forces were false I believe that those who did suffer as POW’s and those who did win the CMH, and those that were in the SF; have lived and earned a distinction that no one can diminish, take away, or dishonor.  The only dishonoring that was done was to, in my case, me. 

Although I did lie and have lived it by not correcting it, the truth is I doubt that there are twenty people that know about it.  I say this because, rather than summon the courage to “set the record” straight, which I have had the opportunity to do on several occasions, I either acknowledged it as being true, or let people believe what they had heard.  And on each of those occasions, with every missed opportunity, I felt a deep sense of guilt and shame.  My belief was that if I just never talked about it would eventually go away.  Although this tactic gave me some solace, it didn’t address the core issue; that being that I knew there were those who did believe those things about me.  But the more troubling issue for me was that it also caused me to question my character, I mean who would tell such a story and why? 

Life is a journey during which, hopefully, each of us learn and accept who we really are.  My journey has been at times difficult, but many times rewarding.  I know that I have come a long way since my youth.  I also know that experience, and experiences, shape people.  In my case I know that I struggled with my self esteem for many years, still do to some degree, but I also know that creating a false image is not the answer.   Somewhere along the line I came to terms with the reality that I had to learn to like me…for me, and as me.  I could easily go into my childhood and growing up, and I could rationalize and conjure up all kinds of reasons and excuses for feeling the need to be liked or admired for someone other than who I am.  But at the end of the day that is all they would be; excuses and rationalizations…and worse I learned that this kind of thinking never allows one to learn to like oneself or get to know oneself.  

Just to set the record straight: I am a Vietnam veteran, serving in the US Army from September 10, 1967-July 5, 1970.  I was a member of a Task Force (not SF) but an engineering task force (27th LCT) that cleared jungle and was known as the Jungle Eaters.  Our missions always included extended periods (several weeks) in field operations clearing jungle with specially designed bulldozers.  The missions were nearly all in areas of concentrated enemy buildups, or hot spots, the goal, of course, to take away the enemy cover.  And while the dozers had a protective canopy designed to protect the operators from falling trees and debris, it did nothing to stop and RPG, or for that matter even protect them from small arms fire.  Our NDP’s were shared with the Cavalry and Infantry units that were assigned to provide us with protection.  Interestingly, during operations we were the ones that were always on the point of the spear, necessarily so, because our mission was to clear the jungle thus exposing the enemy to our cavalry and infantry units, while at the same time allowing us to find enemy stores, caches, and even enemy underground hospitals.  Although incredibly risky, it was an assignment that made us all proud, indeed the majority of our unit was comprised of volunteers.  We were one of the first, if not the first, units into Cambodia , something that I remember as giving us a feeling of pride, offset by the fear of knowing that we were going into an area in which we expected the worst.    

I was rapidly promoted, achieving the rank of E-6 Staff Sergeant and was awarded three Bronze Stars and the Purple Heart.  My commanding officer also wrote a letter on my behalf recommending me for a direct commission.  I still have the draft copy but I honestly do not remember whether he ever officially sent it to the powers that make that kind of decision.  I do know that my priority was to take the path of least resistance and get out of the Army as soon as I could, so this may have had some impact on both his and my decision to pursue a commission.  In fact I had forgotten all about it until just recently when while going through my military records I came across the draft letter that he had written.

I think my reason for sharing this detail is to make a point; I have a military record that I am proud of, and I would have to believe that making Staff Sergeant in less than three years was a testimony that someone thought I had what it takes to be a leader.  The question that I struggle with is: why didn’t I recognize and accept that for what it was, rather than fabricate something else?  Although I believe that now, at 58-years old, I do know why; I also know that it has probably taken that long for me to understand it and I know that I am certainly not capable of explaining it, nor for that matter do I believe it is necessary.  All that is necessary now is to admit it; and I do, and apologize for it; and I do. And then of course live with it; and I will.    

Anyway, seven years ago I thought I had begun to put this behind me, for it was then that one person came to me and questioned my story.  He had never heard it from me, but from someone else; anyway he challenged me and fortunately he did it in such a way that I knew that I had to come clean, which I did.  He was a retired military colonel and interestingly, once I told him the true story I also asked him what he thought I should do.  At the time I had written a letter that I planned to send to all of my fellow employees in which I told the whole story and in which I also tendered my resignation from my position as a union leader.  Once he read the letter, he gave me some surprising advice.  He told me that I should not send the letter because he knew that this story was only known by a very few people.  He went on to tell me that he felt like I was indeed a good man doing a good job.

Today I do regret not sending that letter, however I also do agree with him.  I know that I am a good man, one that made a mistake, a mistake that cuts deep and one that caused me to question my very own character.  But to me, my character is no longer a question because I know who I am and am proud of what I have become.  I like myself and I truly enjoy what I do. 

A final thought, actually more an observation.  I do believe that the person who is responsible for posting my Vietnam story on the website was motivated by something other than the greater good of Vietnam veterans, POW’s, or CMOH recipients; I say this based upon the timing of the two posts that I have seen, both done during a time of elections for our union.  I also question that persons courage because in my mind I would expect to challenge someone first, give that person the opportunity to do the right thing and set the record straight, before I exposed them on a public website.  I would do this because I have learned, and believe, that almost every single one of us have our weaknesses, our hidden faults, and because I do believe this I also accept that none of us are perfect, that we are all struggling in some way or another.  To me it just seems like a much more honorable and honest approach to help one another overcome our various hurdles, unless of course our motivation is to capitalize on them.  It also seems to me that when one expects honor of others they should hold themselves to the same high standard.

I want to close by saying that I do indeed apologize for my lie; it was neither honorable nor necessary.  Ironically, though, it did far more damage to me, than it did to anyone else.  The good thing; my conscience is finally, completely and totally clear and as a result I like myself much better.   As for the future, this may indeed come back to haunt me, it may prevent me from achieving a goal, but it will not stop me from trying.  So to whomever, regardless of your intentions; I owe you a debt of gratitude.  Thanks. –and I do mean it.  

Sincerely,

Daniel L. Brannan

P.S:  This email is going to as many people as I can think of that may have some knowledge of this story.  It is also going on my future website, with a referral back to your website.  I do not want to hide this or cover it up; I instead intend to live with it, not that I am proud of it in any way, but because I know that I made a mistake, and one that I know that I must correct, if for no other reason than for my own personal satisfaction and conscious. 

Please feel free to contact me at my email address, dan@danbrannan.com.   If you need copies of my DD214 or of the medals that I have received please let me know.  Thanks  

BOWERS,  Arthur B.
11/23/2005

Mr. Bowers has provided documentation, authenticated by NPRC that as of Nov 23, 2005 he is authorized the National Defense Service Medal; Combat Infantry Badge, Korean Service Medal; "
added to Sep Doc 17 Apr 1953 Good Conduct Medal"; United Nations Service Medal.

Prior copies of FOIAs and  2 DD214's did not list these medals.

Bump, Ronald E.

Buzbee, Ronald - Rescued 5 from Tiger Cages of Laos Oct Nov 72.

06/27/01
Records indicate from Apr 72 to March 73 stationed at Nellis AFB, NEVADA and Apr 71 to April 72 at Osean Korea as a weapons mechanic.

Mr. Buzbee personally called the P.O.W. NETWORK and apologized for the statements he made in public in Branson,  November 2000. He stated NONE of the statements about 
rescuing ANY POWs was true. He was on NO such mission and was only trying to impress people - carried away by the moment. He is deeply and profoundly sorry, begged forgiveness, 
and was unaware how much pain he may have caused when he made the statements. He stated that he was also hoping we would allow him to volunteer in 2001, and make amends for the 
grief his statements may have caused POW family members present.
Chapman, David A.

aka Dave Chapman

 

 "Peace Among Ourselves:  Facing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial." 

quote

Well, I have never given up on anybody that is listed as just MIA. The POW-MIA issues is a big one of mine, as you can tell. My motorcycle, for  instance with the POW-MIA insignia on it, everything I've got on, I'm always  wearing something that I believe...to put a man's name on that Wall when his  remains have never been returned, is not right. Because that is giving up  hope. Even thought I was MIA for 2 1/2 months....."

endquote

USA 151st Trans Co.

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UPDATED: Nov. 10, 2006
MILITARY
Vietnam War vet’s injuries recognized
Silver Rose given for Agent Orange illness

MARY LANE GALLAGHER

A Blaine resident and Vietnam War veteran received a medal at a Blaine High School ceremony Thursday commemorating his war service and injuries related to exposure to Agent Orange.

Agent Orange, a toxic defoliant, has been linked to several types of cancer and other illnesses, but those illnesses don’t make soldiers eligible for a Purple Heart. The Order of the Silver Rose is provided by a nongovernmental organization that hopes to honor veterans and raise awareness about Agent Orange exposure.

David Chapman Jr., Washington state president of Combat Veterans International, said he wanted to let other vets know that the Silver Rose medal was available.

He also hopes the Purple Heart will someday be awarded to veterans who develop illnesses related to their Agent Orange exposure.

“My wound is no different from a lot of guys who got shot, or who took shrapnel,” Chapman said.

For more information about the Order of the Silver Rose, go to www.silverrose.info.

Reach Mary Lane Gallagher at 715-2285 or mary.gallagher@bellinghamherald.com.

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Other than his claiming to be a POW he harasses different organizations to re- award him his "silver rose" medal for Agent Orange exposure related illness. He claims  he was captured in Vietnam, thrown into some sort of pit but eventually escaped - after  having to kill his severely wounded comrade. Is seen riding his motor cycle often and you can find him anywhere a microphone is visible.

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Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006
It was just brought to my attention that my name is on your list of Phony POW's.  I don't know where this information came from but it is bogus! I would love to talk to someone about this matter as soon as possible....either by email, telephone, or in person if necessary. This really saddens me.  
David A Chapman, Jr.    


NPRC re Chapman:
Full name is David Auld Anderson Chapman, Jr. 
Service No. 18 976 093. 
Awards and decorations: National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal with 2 stars, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Ribbon W/ Device (1960), and Good Conduct Medal. 
 
Mr Chapman was trained as a teletype operator and tractor (fork lift) operator. 

On 29th of June 1968 E4 Chapman was AWOL. 
On 8th of August, 1968 the following entry was placed into his record "Dropped from rolls-DESERTION. 

 
......that since Mr Chapman was photographed with the Purple Heart Ribbon which he did not earn he deserves the appropriate attention of the posting of those photos. Also he was never MIA or POW as he has stated many times but actually AWOL DFR'D.
 

One of his favorite war stories was that he was an APC (armored Personnel Carrier) "Captain"

   

From: "DAVID CHAPMAN" <cutthroat_cvi@msn.com>
To: <info@pownetwork.org>
Cc: "David AA Chqapman" <thefreightrain@msn.com>
Subject: PURPLE HEART/MIA
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:36:26 -0800

My name is David A A Chapman Jr, from Blaine

wa.  I need to appolagize and clarify.  You have a picture of me wearing a Purple Heart at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. on Memorial Day of 1993. I didn't receive it and didn't deserve to be wearing it. I wore it in front of a lot of guys that knew it wasn't on my DD 214 and irregardless of what my reasoning was at the time, I was WRONG!!!!! I sincerely appoligize to those who did receive it, and anyone elce that that offended. Even the guy that sent in those pics would have to agree....that is the one and only time I wore it, I'm ashamed of myself for that, and I can guarantee it never happened before, or since that date.   As far as the MIA issue....Yes I did use the phrase MIA...but the Government uses "Where abouts Unknown" to my family, and when I was questioned they called me lost, so I was never officially MIA. My Unit wrote down AWOL, and 30 days later DFR as claimed. They didn't know where I was.  Once I was located, I was flown the Vung Tau to the 36th Med Evac Hospital and operated on.  Then they flew me to the 6th Convelesent Center at Cam Rahn Bay. They drw lines through the AWOL and DFR on my 201 file, awarded me the Good Conduct Medal (a year before eligibility)  and then Med Evaced me home.  If I was truly a deserter, They would not have awarded me the GCM then discharge me honorably.  As far as the Silver Rose goes...I thought that was pretty cool...It was presented to me ONCE at my almamater, Blaine High School infront of brothers and Family.  That thing in the Bellingham herald about me saying it is the same as being shot?  I was appauled when I saw it, and if you go to the heralds web site you will see that they printed an appoligy and retraction the next day.  And I never said I was a Captain of an APC, I said I drove an APC, which I did.  I was in Transportation. I had a Motor Pool Lisence to drive any vehicle up to and including a 10 ton Tractor and Trailer, and all Track. Once again my sincere appoigies....and I will freely answer any questions or and provide any documents you would like....David Chapman Jr 

 

2009- Those photos of Dave have to be recent. He said he had Agent Orange so bad that the VA misdiagnosed his strep throat as "Throat Cancer". The VA had an operation done on him to remove his voice box. So he uses a mechanical device to talk. He is talking or reading from something in the one photo and w/o a mechanical device.

Cordoves, Joaquin
aka Cordoves, Jack
aka Marrone, Jack
aka Marrow, Jack
aka Marr, Jack		 MS 1998
2003		 Claims POW - read it for yourself! JOAQUIN CORDOVES, SPEC4, Served 64-68 and 69-70, NO CIB noted, but National Defense; Vietnam Service Medal, Air Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal; Purple Heart; Expert/Rifle; Good Conduct; Sharpshooter/Machine Gun. HHT, 3D SQDN 12th CAV. Europe, Germany, Fort DIX, Hawaii and CA.

From: Jake4566@aol.com
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 02:13:53 EDT
Subject: Letter Of Appology
To: info@pownetwork.org
X-Mailer: 8.0 for Windows sub 6014

My name is Jack marrone aka  Joaquin p Cordoves I appoligise To all of the vetrans  that fought for our country so proudly. Yes i did claim Iwas a
POW it was wrong . I Have no excuse . And I wish to appoligise to all I have offended including my family. There are no words that can express .
the lies ive told. and especially to my combat buddies. I did serve as a scout with D1/9th cav 1st cav Div  from 1966 to 1967  as a 11d 20  I did 
earn a P.H and an air medal and C.I B And this verified. Yes i did lie about being a POW. and disgraced my self. I Dishonered the memories of 
thoese who gave thier life for thier country and real POWs .

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Here's another link to Mr. Jack Marrone in the National Sex Offender Registry. http://www.nsopr.gov/
Select Mississippi and enter Marrone for the last name.   
 Jack Peter Marrone 
Aliases: Jack Peter Cordoves
Coiner, Clifford Albert

aka Comer, Clifford

aka Clifford Two Smokes 
Comer		 Phoenix, AZ
Medford, Oregon		 09/2004 ... "I’m a pacifist now and don’t even own a gun," said Comer, 62, a martial arts instructor who spent 19 months in a POW camp. "I hardly remember any of it. It took me a couple years to get back to feeling human and I don’t talk military to anyone." He left the Marine Corps in 1984 as a lieutenant colonel."...

http://www.mailtribune.com/archive/2004/0830/local/stories/01local.htm\

NAME MISSPELLED IN NEWS ARTICLE

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Man’s fabrications rankle local Indians

Clifford ‘Two Smokes’ Coiner retracts tales of Vietnam heroism he told the Mail Tribune for a story last month

By JOHN DARLING

for the Mail Tribune

Following an uproar in the local American Indian community, a Phoenix man has apologized for claiming that he was a Marine officer, a prisoner of war in Vietnam and was decorated for heroism.

Clifford "Two Smokes" Coiner recanted his story after being asked to come before the Warrior Society, a local organization of American Indian military veterans based in Grants Pass. Coiner confessed that his statements regarding his military service, printed in the Aug. 30 edition of the Mail Tribune, were "a pack of lies" that came from "living in a fantasy world."

Nick Hall, executive director of Southern Oregon Indian Center in Grants Pass, said Coiner’s misrepresentations of his military record were offensive to Indian veterans, who could not find his name on any POW or Marine veteran Web sites and requested he publicly straighten out the record.

Rather than being a decorated Marine Corps officer and POW, Coiner now admits he only served two years as an enlisted man in the Navy just before the Vietnam War.

"I’ve insulted and hurt a lot of people with these stupid ego fantasies," Coiner said. "It was a fantasy I made up seven years ago when my daughters found me on the Internet. We were apart 31 years and I wanted to impress them so they wouldn’t think I was a bum."

The Warrior Society, which operates within Southern Oregon Indian Center, asked Coiner to publicly apologize for misstatements made at the Pottsville pow-wow, where his wedding — the occasion for the newspaper story — took place. He delivered a brief apology, Hall said. Coiner said his wife "supported me through this" ordeal over the fabrications.

While the Aug. 30 story focused on Coiner’s wedding, it also made reference to his alleged military experience, describing him as "a highly decorated Vietnam combat veteran" and "a martial arts instructor who spent 19 months in a POW camp." He said he had retired from the Marine Corps in 1984 as a lieutenant colonel.

Hall and other local American Indians said Coiner’s published statements also stereotyped or misrepresented Indian custom, dress and ceremony and offended many in the local American Indian community.

"Just about everything he said was fabricated," said Hall, "and my phone was ringing off the wall with calls from Native Americans and veterans."

In particular, Hall said, Indian regalia, such as the sacred eagle feather bonnet, sacred shirt and scalp locks worn by Coiner, are earned and worn only by designated people, with the consent of elders.

The Warrior Society "takes care of the people and tries to protect our elders, using traditional ways to deal with the situation," said Hall.

"This is a real problem in the Native American community," said Jerry Aaronson of the Choctaw tribe. "People go around and claim certain status or position when they have never been designated such by the tribes they claim to come from."

"He apologized and did what was right," said Warrior Society and Shasta tribe member Jim Prevatt. "We don’t hold any animosity. If you misrepresent yourself as a leader or Sundancer, you answer to the Creator for everything you do. You have to do things in a good way and treat people as you want to be treated."

Hall and other American Indian veterans of the Warrior Society met with Coiner and heard his apology.

Diane Shadley, a Navajo-Comanche, said American Indians are happy to have non-Indians come to pow-wows and appreciate Indian ways but it’s a "sad thing" that they sometimes get "out of hand" and dance or dress inappropriately.

"What this all brought up was that this man should not have been looked to as a leader," said Shadley. "Anytime you say you are a leader or pipe carrier or you charge money (for ceremonies or healings), you’re not respected. A pipe-carrier or leader doesn’t have to say that’s what he is, because the people know."

Coiner said he once performed weddings in an Indian manner, but said a few years ago the Lakota tribe asked him to stop because "bad things were coming from people not of full blood doing sacred ceremonies." He said he has not done ceremonies since.

Local American Indians also disputed Coiner’s claim to have done the Lakota Sundance ceremony at age 12. However, Coiner maintains that he is half Lakota and dragged a buffalo skull attached by rope to a peg skewering one of his shoulders for two hours, but outside the Sundance circle. That method is one of several that is part of the Lakota Sundance ritual.

"I am so, so sorry," Coiner said. "I’ve made my peace with everyone and from now on I’ll try to be as honest and truthful as I can be."

John Darling is a free-lance writer living in Ashland. E-mail him at jdarling@jeffnet.org

Postmarked 04 May 2009:

CORLEY, DAN

CLAIMING SEALS, Special Forces, MACVSOG, Rangers, other
David, David L.C. - CA/AZ  (claiming ALL of the above) - VFW --   EXPOSED

From - Fri Jun 16 11:52:20 2000
From: DDAVID69@aol.com
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 12:23:59 EDT
Subject: Fwd: friends and veterans
To: pownet@asde.com

Dear Friends and Veterans,                                                   
   JUNE 6, 2000,                                           I want to sincerely apologize for my past actions regarding the gross misrepresentation of my past military service.  My motives were not meant to 
harm or dishonor those who have fought and bled foe this country.  My motives were quite personal and at times painful.  I realize now and have for many years, I come to the conclusion 
that for whatever reason, living this daily lie was borne out of a tragic need to be someone people looked up to and admired.  I unfortunately felt that just being DAVID was not good enough. 
 I am now met with full force of rage many betrayed people are justly giving me. I am given, for the first time, a look at myself as simply David, stripped of military honors, and standing on my 
own two feet. what I have done, I did to fill a hole in my heart and not to harm anyone or any veteran who served this country. as I look at my past civic and veteran related volunteering projects, 
they to were to fill a hole in my heart So desperately longed for.  I hope you can look to the good I have tried to do and remember that my sham has brought me great shame, as it should. I am
 finding it difficult to forgive myself and ask you all if you can find a place in your heart to forgive me for what I have done and let me go on with my life with this new albeit soiled identity.  

    sincerely, DAVID LC DAVID ---

NOTE: The P.O.W. NETWORK did not "purchase" the "entire" articles sourced here.

Long Beach (CA) Press-Telegram
NewsLibrary Search Results

Published on 06/24/2000, PRESS-TELEGRAM

ADMITTED FAKE HERO `REBORN'
CONFESSION: DAVID C. DAVID FINDS HE HAS FRIENDS AFTER ALL.  

   Two days after his shameful, dark secret was revealed to the world, David David's life is turning around.

   On Friday, he stood inside Veteran's Stadium, handing out new underwear and socks to homeless war veterans in a volunteer capacity he's held for 10 years. For many, to see him at the annual event was a valiant sight.

Complete Article, 585 words

Published on 06/23/2000, PRESS-TELEGRAM

SHAMED BY WEB OF DECEIT  

   One day after being unmasked as a counterfeit war hero, David David finds he has nothing left to fight but his tears.
   ``I wake up at night crying,'' said David, 63, on Thursday. ``I'm so ashamed of what I did. Twenty-four hours a day, seven hours a week, I think about what I have done. I have no peace.''

Complete Article, 761 words

Published on 06/22/2000, PRESS-TELEGRAM

ONCE REVERED `WAR HERO' TURNS OUT A FAKE  

   Regarding him with reverence was almost a reflex.
   ``That's David David,'' I once heard someone say in awe. ``He was a Navy SEAL. Won a Silver Star in Vietnam.''

Complete Article, 1554 words
DICKINSON, KENNETH D 
aka Sleepy		 01/2009 FL Claiming a E-7 Gunnery Sgt,  Recon Scout Sniper, Gold jump wings & scuba badge.
Claims service from 80-96.
 
http://www.wotg.stgfc.com/phpBB2/ - be sure to visit his website! 		Actual records and actual claims

From: "Kenneth Dickinson" <Thorgrimm@comcast.net>
To: <info@pownetwork.org>
Subject: Apologies and Personal Contact Data
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:40:02 -0500

Gentlemen, I made a grievous error in misrepresenting my rank, time of service, and mos. For that I am deeply sorry, and this will be the only time it ever occurs.
 
But I am deeply concerned over your willingness to post my personal contact data with my current home address and cell phone number.
 
As you are well aware, posting someones personal contact data without their permission is against the law. This act has endangered my wife and children with the posting of that data.
 
No mistake I have made makes it worth endangering the lives of my family like posting my data has done. We all are well aware of the predators who stalk the net looking for just that type of information.
 
So I am requesting, with all due respect, that you take down that document with my address and phone number on it. Please let me know one way or the other if you will comply with my request.
 
Kenneth Dickinson

===============================

Dear Pownetwork, I had made a grevious error misrepresenting my rank, time in service, and mos. But I never claimed to have recieved Gold Jump Wings or the Scuba Qual Badge.
 
So I am a bit confused as to why those are listed there when even the documents listed as evidence indicates no such claim.
 
So pursuant to Title 18 (U.S.C.), Chapter 33, §704 titled “Military medals or decorations” states:

(a) In General.--Whoever knowingly wears, manufactures, or sells any decoration or

medal authorized by Congress for the armed forces of the United States, or any of the service

medals or badges awarded to the members of such forces, or the ribbon, button, or rosette of any

such badge, decoration or medal, or any colorable imitation thereof, except when authorized

under regulations made pursuant to law, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more

than six months, or both.

How am I liable for prosecution under the Stolen Valor Act? What I did was reprehensible, but to accuse me of something I never did is just as wrong, don't you think?

So I respectfully request you adjust your entry for me to represent my true crime of misrepresentation and please remove what I did not do. I respectfully request that you let me know of your decision.

 

Thank you, Kenneth Dickinson

==========================

From: "Kenneth Dickinson" <Thorgrimm@comcast.net>
To: "P.O.W. Network - Chuck and Mary Schantag" <info@pownetwork.org>
Subject: Apology
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:32:59 -0500
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138
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X-MailHub-Apparently-To: info@pownetwork.org

I know you are pobably tired of my emails, but I have one more that needed to be sent.
 
I have been in contact with Staff Sergeant Larry Smith who is helping me work through this error on my behalf. I promised him in an exchange of emails last night, after he helped me realize just how dishonorable I had been by my false claims, to come clean with everything.
 
So in keeping with my promise to the Staff Sergeant and his suggestion, along with the realization I may be prosecuted for my false claims, my denial of claiming the Gold Wings or Scuba Badge on TWS was false. I offer no excuse for this and only state it was sent before my exchange of emails with the Staff Sergeant.
 
 
 
Kenneth Dickinson
 
DiGiacomo, Joseph D. Lakewood, OH 09/2004
05/2005		 Claims Vietnam 27 months, Prisoner for 10 months. Claims while leading a group of soldiers, he told them he would blow their heads off if they intimidated the locals. NO RECORDS FOUND

From: Joedigiacomo123@aol.com
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 07:27:23 EDT
Subject: RE:Joseph DiGiacomo, Lakewood,Ohio
To: info@pownetwork.org
CC: Joedigiacomo123@aol.com
 
I never served in the military, and did not serve in Vietnam and was never a POW.
 
I regret and apologize for any hurt this misunderstanding might have caused to those who have served our country, or to anyone else.
 
I honor & thank all those who served our country.
 
Joe DiGiacomo

Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:44:59 -0500
From: Jon Drolshagen 

Per your request:

    I hereby renounce any claim to being the person describe in your letter.

    I state to you that I was not a SOG operative, a MANCHU, a POW, nor was I ever wounded.

    I wish to apologize to any/all military personnel who I may have unjustly harmed by so stating. I will never again suggest to anyone that I am anything other than that which I am. 

Sincerest Apologies

Jon C Drolshagen
Eastman, John A. 11/2005 New Galilee
PA
Claims to be a former Pittsburgh Steeler and Hollywood screenwriter 

EXPOSED, CHARGED, CONVICTED AND SENTENCED   

 

Nov 22, 2008

 

Apology.

My name is John A. Eastman. Federal authorities contacted me for an interview for misrepresenting my military rank and service. I volunteered to
 attend this meeting and freely admitted my mistake and stupidity, which was documented by the FBI. As it was too late to stop the legal process, 
I accepted my sentence, paid my fine and publicly apologized to the court and local military groups. I also apologized to Mr. Joe Dugan, former 
Director of the Soldiers and Sailors Hall in Pittsburgh. Joe was a great Marine, but unfortunately succumbed to cancer. I attend his funeral.

I am now apologizing to all that trusted me in what I told them, and all present and former military, for my misrepresentations. It is my intent to 
get on with my life and let go of my past screwups.

I thank you in advance for your forgiveness, should you find the capacity to forgive a stupid man.

 

Sincerely,

John A. Eastman


John Eastman
xsceastman65@yahoo.com
DODGE, W.D.

aka WALTER D DODGE

 CA 04/2009

Monday, March 30, 2009

'The Nicoli Conspiracy': To What Lengths Will a Mother Go in Order to Get Back the Child She Lost?

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., March 30, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ ----In W.D. Dodge's new book, "The Nicoli Conspiracy" (published by AuthorHouse), a mother's love for her lost child is put to the test as she surrenders all self-respect by entering a world most only read about.

Masha is taken away from an abusive life in the Ukraine by Yuri, a man who convinces her that life will improve tenfold by becoming his wife and following him to Israel. As Masha and Yuri settle down to a better life, she gives birth to Nicoli. She happily takes care of her son, but when Masha discovers the horrifying truth about who and what Yuri is, she finds herself and her child in danger. She makes the decision to escape to America with Nicoli and be with her brother, Dimitri.

As Masha and Nicoli steal away to the ship that will take them to freedom, Yuri and his men take Nicoli from her arms along with all of the money she had saved. On September 10, 2001, Masha lands in New York and begins her search for a lawyer who handles international law. Benjamin Levi, Esq.'s office is on the fifth floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center. As she awaits Ben's return on September 11, her world is changed again. Ben's flight is brought down in Pennsylvania. She and Ben's secretary escape from the tower with their lives and nothing else.

Finding herself alone, Masha is forced to start again, with no money and no resources. Along with friends she meets on the way, Masha joins forces with the CIA in order to go back to Israel to retrieve her son from his terrorist father and a life of hate and death.

Masha shows her determination to save her son no matter what it takes in the pages of "The Nicoli Conspiracy" ....

About the Author: W. D. Dodge is a highly decorated veteran of the Vietnam War. He was captured by the North Vietnamese and held prisoner. He escaped and made it back home, becoming a certified teacher in California holding three credentials. He has been an actor and director on stage and screen. Dodge is a musician and has won the Drama Critic's Circle award for best original score in Shakespeare's "Tempest" performed at the Globe Theatre. He possesses multiple graduate degrees as well as an Honorary Doctorate. Dodge was included in the 1984 edition of Distinguished Young Men of America. His previously published works include the novellas "Time Soaring" and "Curtain Time." He lives in Southern California with his wife, children, grandchildren and dog, Bogey.

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SOURCE AuthorHouse

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The Self-Publishing Company is AuthorHouse.
NEVER A POW

Records requested

 

 

Dear Authorhouse:
 
The Nicole Conspiracy story has a nice heart-rendering twist, but I am
skeptical of its veracity.
 
I am especially skeptical because of the blatent lies of the author, W.D. Dodge as expressed in his biography.  No man named W.D. Dodge was ever with any one of us, the real 661 POWs who survived the Vietnam War, nor is he known by the Department of Defense in this regard.  The authentic list of all 3,797 MIAS/POWs of the Vietnam war are a matter of public record at the following Department of Defense web site.  Mr. Dodge is not listed:
   
How can one believe a book written by an author who lies about his own background? 

Mike McGrath, Captain USN (Retired)
POW in North Vietnam for 5 years 8 months
Historian, NAM-POWs Corporation

 

Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:48:47 -0700
Subject: Apologies
From: Walt  Dodge <wbmb@cox.net>
To: <info@pownetwork.org>
I, W.D.Dodge, also known as Walt Dodge, fully and regretfully apologize for
the  statement in my biography referring to my status as an ex-POW from Viet
Nam.  I am a Viet Nam veteran and mistakenly took the advise of a manager
who convinced me to use this phrasing.  I am ultimately responsible for my
own actions and apologize for any slighting my comments may have caused the
true valiant heroes who bore the country's burden during that horrible
conflict.  My comments have been withdrawn and will never appear again.

Epperson Carl James, "LtCdr" - AR -- convicted felon  (click for history of)
        aka Epperson, Carl J.
        aka Epperson, Carl James Jr.
        aka Epperson, James
        aka Epperson, Little Reb                                     SEE HIS REAL MILITARY RECORD
         aka Epperson, Tex                                                                                            
        aka Epperson,  J.D.
        aka Epperson, James David
        aka Epperson, Reb
     
Had emailed letter of apology Dec 1999 
to "All Americans I have offended with my lies.. I was never a SEAL, a POW... black ops ..."    
APOLOGY VOID

2002 
aka Davis, James 
aka Emmerson, Carl James
- still claims POW, dog fell in the hole, killed the dog, ate it raw, used the rib to kill the guard. Now in SPADES on line game areas. Claims apology was never made by him. NOW IN ALABAMA.

02/2003 - PINCKARD, AL AREA - seen regularly at the elementary school where his WIFE is principal
12/2003 wife WAS principal

APRIL 10, 2003

Unconfirmed Reports-- Epperson was extradited to Arkansas by the legal authorities but has returned to the Pinckard  area. The school principal, will probably not have her contract renewed.  This website may have been a key to his being located by Arkansas authorities.

February 2004:
"He has been married many times - doesn't divorce. Takes what he can and leaves. Uses things like "my mother has cancer, is about to die,  going to her side, will be back when I can."  Never comes back. 
Claims his wife and granddaughter was killed by a drunk driver, his son was killed in a high speed chase. 
Noticed  he has sent you email asking  you to take his name off of your list. Please do not do that. Leave him on there."
                               Signed - 
                               Another victim of his

From: <aubark@alltel.net
To: <info@pownetwork.org
Subject: Apology for my mistakes
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 18:58:26 -0500

To Whom It May Concern:

I am Carl James Epperson.Jr.  I fully acknowledge that in the past i have misrepresented myself as a POW and as a SEAL.
I have taken a a new path in life and I am trying to start over and lead a Christian life with no lies or deceit.

I was never a POW nor a SEAL and for this misrepresentation I do here by apologize for any and all damage I have done.

I apologize to all of the military that I have offended and to the memory of those who gave their life for this great country for claiming such a status among the honorable ones who did I sincerely apologize for this with all my heart.

Futhermore, I was never in "Black-Ops" or anything else so honorable.

I have tried to lead a Christian life in all ways for well over a year now.  I have settled all my outstanding cases with the law and in the process of trying to rebuild a new and honorable life.

As far as my criminal record goes I was only charged and convicted of 1 (one) count of Statutory rape at the age of 16 and that was over 40 years ago I have had some minor run ins with the law over my bookkeeping practices but, that is all settled now.  I have re-married a wonderful woman who knows all about my history and has forgiven me as I hope and pray you will.
I only ask that after this apology that you and I can let this issue die.
Again, I thank you for your time and understanding.
Sincerely yours,
Carl James Epperson, Jr.

May we remind you what you said before?? 

Subject: apology
    Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 17:19:26 -0600
    From: "james epperson" <good_to_go11@cyberback.com
    To: <fatmike@mozcom.com
   
    Mike-
    I sincerely apologize to all the Americans that i have offended by my    lies and fantasies and regret them fromt he bottom of my heart. I was
    never a sesal, in desert storm, apow worked black ops or anything else 
    .
    If my death will cause this tuff to go away and let me try to build a  life after I am through with counseling so be it.  This is not a
    threat but, it is the only way i can make you all know how serious i  am about getting this over with and behind me.
    Please accept this apology and know it comes from the bottom of my   heart.
    Thank You
    Carl Epperson

And that was worthless. You told  NEW lies over and over again after it.  Why should we believe you now?

===============
 Wed, 17 Dec 2003

 For the simple reason my life has changed and I am NOT the same person who wrote that apology before I can assure you that I MEAN everything that I said tyo to you this time.  Ihave changed found a new life in GOD and am trying to live the right life,  I am attempting to make amends to all that I have offended and hping I can start a new life in God and hopefully you will accept this as a very sincere apology.
Carl James Epperson

===============
Date: 2003/12/17 Wed PM 09:39:25 EST

This is my third e-mail to you requesting that you accept my apology.
I would appreciate your answering my e-mail and removing my name from this list.
I have truly changed and am no longer that person.  I now live a Christian life and I am attempting to put all the things that I did in my past behind me.  And living a new life in the Word.
Thank you,
Carl James Epperson, Jr.

 

Fallon, J. Paul aka Paul Fallon Grosse Point MI 09/2002 Claims USMC retired GySgt, Navy Cross, three Purple Hearts, 13 other decorations, former POW, three years in combat. Claims made on  history site msg board 09/13/02.
 March 4, 2003

Greetings:

I would like to begin the process of retracting some of the claims, attributed to me, which are false.  Please provide me with the directions needed to do so.

I made claims to having been a POW and I was not.  I was assigned duties in Operation Homecoming while stationed at the Fleet Intelligence Center Atlantic.  I made claims that I received the Navy Cross and I did not.  My highest award is the Navy Commendation Medal with "V". (I am the recipient of the Purple Heart, Navy Achievement Medal with "V", Combat Action Ribbon,

Vietnam Service, Vietnam Campaign, Civic Action, Cross of Gallantry and others.)  I made these claims in the heat of an online argument with those who had never seen combat or who had never served... who were, themselves acting as if they "knew it all."  I exaggerated my service record thinking it would impress them into shutting up.  It's as simple as that.  I have never, otherwise, inflated either my service record or sought privileges for it.

I can provide my DD214 which indicates the periods of my service and in-country assignment, as well as the medals and citations to which I am the recipient.  It's a shame that I allowed the moment to get away from me or that I could not have just rested upon my actual nearly 10 years of service, for which I am very proud

While this has been an embarassment, it has effected my own feelings of self-worth and contribution even more.  It has caused me to want to avoid discussions about the service and combat and I do not like that feeling.

I seek your help. Thank you.

J. Paul Fallon

Galloway, Bobby Wayne
aka Cmdr Galloway USN Ret.		 Clovis/Fresno CA Jan 1999

still at it 04/2002		 Claims American Ax-POWs - business card reads " Commander Wayne Galloway, USN (Ret)." Member VFW. VA care including mental health care at one time. Claims 32 years service, 5 YEARS captivity (OR Oct 68 to Jan 69). Released with McCain. Claims wife had him declared dead - he's "on the WALL." Altered DD214 shows Purple Heart and Vietnam Ex-POW. Records indicate Rank of ADJ1... Active duty Oct 23, 1964 - Jan 13, 1972. Awards and Decorations: National Defense Service Medal, Battle Efficiency Award, Good Conduct Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Navy Unit Commendation Ribbon. DoB 23 April 1946. 
Had CA POW license plates.  NO service connected disability! Reported to VA/ Togo West for fraud in 1999.
Cell phone 559-903-2034 - on American Ax-POWs business card!!
Received by certified mail 06/10/02
 
TO : CAPTAIN JOHN M. McGRATH ( USN RET. )
 
from: BOBBY WAYNE GALLOWAY

 FORMER USN ADJ-1

 S# 697-54-69
 
MAILING ADDRESS BOBBY WAYNE GALLOWAY
5750 E. SHIELDS AVE
SUITE 101 MSC  122
FRESNO , CA. 93727
 
Dear Sir,

 I the above listed person need your help It has recently been brought to my attention that I have been listed by your ORIG. AS BEING
A FAURD To this I do admit .  I am not an EX-POW(EX_PRISONER OF WAR ).
 
 I need your help Sir in correction this problem Any information you may be able to give me will be greatley appericated.
Sir let it be known that tho i am not a EX-POW , I HAVE BEEN AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF A LOCAL CHAPTER OF AMERICAN EX-POW FOR MANY YEARS .Sir tho this did occor it was no reason for me to tell the lies I have told  .
Please except my sincere apployige and I ask , no SirI beg your forgiveness and the forgiveness of all the LOST SHEEP as well.
Things got out of control Please Captain help me correct this wron.
Captain if this is not enough to take this STAIN away from my name and remove me from your list , please Sir let me knowwhat i must do.
Sir if it is your wish I will contact the chapter of EX-POW I am a member of and I will reuest they remove me from its membership roll .
However Sir I would request you will give me FAVOR with this request,
signed
 
Bobby Wayne Galloway
Guthrie, Gregory Drake "Wild Bill" Ft Bragg, NC 1997- Claims Captured Lang Vei Laos, MACV-SOG, Det A-947 REMOVED from American Ex-POW Organization membership

From: "MIke Guthrie" <tekafit@hotmail.com
Subject: Gregory D. Guthrie
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 13:10:14 +0000
Dear Sir,
I sent you an email apologizing for the portrayal of a Vietnam vet over three years ago. I had been suffering from a state of delusions due to beatings and constant sayings by my father that I would never amount to anything from the age of six and up. I wanted to let you know that I am totally ashamed of the things that I have done.
 
Going to therapy for the last three years as turned my life around for me, my children, and my family.
 
I know I did wrong and must except the consequences but I did want to give you and all the veterans my sincere apologies and regrets. I served in the Coast Guard and did volunteer for Vietnam was not excepted because of my age of 17 and also they would not take young inexperience personnel.
 
I am very very sorry for all the pain I have caused and will never lie or try to deceive anyone again.
 
Very Respectfully, Gregory Drake Guthrie

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Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 07:25:08 -0500
From: Gregory Guthrie <gguthrie@hvc.rr.com
Subject: MY name
I do not know how my name appears on your list. I was not and have never
been a POW. I do not claim to be a POW and will never claim to be. MY
son saw this and wanted to know if that was me and I told him no. Please
remove me from your list. Thank you. Gregory Guthrie
Haas, Roger Lewis 05/2005
09/2006		 Vermont Roger L Haas
Rank:  E-5 Staff Sergeant
Service:  Air Force
Status:  Veteran/Prior Service

Self Description: Currently living in upstate New York. Have been retired since 1983 because of wounds received in Korea. Belong to, and am active in many veterans organizations. I have a large collection of Air Force patches, medals, uniforms, insignia, wings, and you name it. The collection has been displayed at West Point, FDR home and many other places. I have a wife Marilyn and one daughter Elizabeth who has given us 3 grandsons.		 Served 01 1953 to 02 1956. Discharged as Private due to unsuitability. He was a "Drivers Helper (MOS 60310)"
at Lackland AFB TEXAS.
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:45:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Roger Haas <santacruzsgt@yahoo.com>
Subject: Apology
To: info@pownetwork.org
Gentlemen;

It has been reported that I wore a large number of medals to which I was not awarded.  It is the truth.
I, for selfish reasons wanting to fit in my DD-214 was changed to show that I had earned those medals and had served in Korea. It was all a lie for which I am very sorry and humiliated.  Not that I got caught, but that I did it at all.

It was also reported that I stole a car from an airman and wrecked it in Mexico. That is not true, Nor is it true that I was arrested for auto theft and recieved a bad discharge.  I did BORROWa car from a NCO to use for weekend and wrecked it outside of Douglas Arizona. The Air Force for some reason listed it as a line of duty accident. I was never arrested by either the Air Police or the Arizona authorities.

I did repay the sergeant balance  needed to get a new car.  It wasn't much because his insurance took care of most of it; But he did get a new car at no cost.

I spent 15 months in the Lackland AFB hospital and had several operations as a result of the crash.

The wearing of medals which I did not earn really does not deserve forgiveness because it lessens the valor of those who actually did earn those medals.

I wish to apologize to everyone involved, especially those who actually earned those medals.
If my apology is not accepted I will understand, because what I did had the potential to hurt many
people.

I do hope you will accept my apology.

Sincerely.
Roger L. Haas
Hanney, Rosemary Elizabeth Donovan 
aka Betsy Hanney		 Boston 07/2005
Claims:  Navy,  VietNam 1970-1975
Shrapnel lodged in back 
First female commissioned on the USS Constitution
Combat Photographer VietNam
VietNam POW (over 1 year in an inground hole/cage) - Escaped, hid in rice paddies for months before finding US military to return her to base
Took the photo (fall of Saigon) of the helo lifting off with the person dangling from the bottom.
"Her husband was  running for Mayor of Boston, and her "war record" was part of her rhetoric in this campaign."

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/06/21/in_latin_hennigan_asks_mayor_to_debate/
".... gathered more than the 3,000 signatures required to appear on the ballot.  ..... and South Boston Republican John Hanney failed to get enough signatures."

NO MILITARY WOMEN WERE HELD CAPTIVE IN NAM.

 

Subject: letter of apology
To: info@pownetwork.org
From: r.e.hanney@verizon.com
07/13/2005
 
Ladies and gentlemen,
 
Please  accept this  letter of apology which is duly noted to all have served and are serving in the military service.  I wasn't commissioned on
the USS Constitution,  but I was sworn into the service on the ship.  Did I serve in Vietnam, no.  I was a washout. I was embarrassed.  So the lies came
easily.  Apparently to easy.  I wasn't  out to hurt anyone but myself.  But I will set the record straight here. I lied about everything but being
sworn into the Navy on the USS Constitution.  I have newclippings about that.  EVERYTHING ELSE WAS A BIG FAT LIE.  But I beg of you, its not for
me, but my parents are elderly and very sick and that is not a lie, and they just could handle what comes.  Please accept this apology  and  I will
make this right to everyone.

Please I begging you, please don't investigate.

Thank you for this opportunity to set the record straight,

Rosemary Elizabeth Donovan Hanney
HARRELL, ANTHONY
APRIL 13, 2009
From: John Hill <degaje98@hotmail.com>
To: <info@pownetwork.org>
Subject: I was not a POW
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 13:14:55 -0400
To whom this may concern,
 
I am sending you this message to admit to you (and others) that I was not a POW as I have previously claimed.  You may have already have checked my military records and found out that I served honorably in the U.S. Air Force from Dec., ’69 to Aug., ’73.  I did serve in Southeast Asia ( Thailand and TDY in Viet Nam , 10/14/72 – 8/11/73).  I can offer you any excuse as to why I made this claim, and to do so would perpetuate this sham.  I have made no other false claims regarding my military service.  I vociferously apologize for this grievous error in judgment and I beg your forgiveness.  
 
I realize that this has brought dishonor to myself to those who have served and were POW’s.  Furthermore, today I have publicly admitted and apologized for this falsehood to those who received this information, and THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN.
 
Should you wish to reach me I can be contacted at (440) 858-7669.
 
Most respectfully yours,
 
John Everett Hill, Jr.
 
HILL, RICHARD

aka Rick Hill

aka Rick Thompson

 Hays, KS
CLAIMS:   *Retired Army O-5
         *Ranger qualified
         *veteran of Operation Just Cause
         *Purple heart recipient
         *Special Assignment at the Pentagon with Colin Powell
         *Master's degree in History

 
Ranger: no.
Purple Heart: no.
Pentagon assignment: no.
Retired LTC: no. 
His records say he left the Army as a Captain with 15 years of service. That is the timeframe a lot of guys were given the
option of an early retirement...I lost a lot of E-6's then. Operation Just Cause veteran: Yes, but with 2nd Brigade, 7th Infantry
Division, not the Ranger force. CIB: Yes, however, there is no campaign medal or Army Expeditionary Force medal to go with it.
 
OJC Timeline for 2nd Bde, 7th ID:
 
D-Day -1 19th Dec 89-
2d Bde, 7th Inf Div (L), Alerted for deployment. DRF 1 (3-27th Inf) and DRF 2 Initial Reaction Company (C/2-27th INF) Deploys.
 
D-Day 20 Dec 89 -
2d Bde, 7th Inf Div (L) (4-17 Inf) Begin operations in Colon City, the Canal Zone and Panama City.
Remainder of the 2d Bde, 7th Inf Div (L)(3-17th Inf) Deploys and closes in Panama.
 
D-Day + 2, 22 Dec 89 - 2d Bde, 7th Inf Div (L), deploys to Rio Hato.

D-Day + 3, 23 Dec 89 - International airport reopened. 2d Bde, 7th Inf Div (L) and SF elements begin ops in west.

D-Day + 4, 24 Dec 89 - Noriega enters Papal Nunciatura. Combined U.S./FPP patrols begin.
 
D-Day + 14, 3 Jan 90 - Noriega surrenders to U.S. forces.
 
D-Day + 23, 12 Jan 90 - Operation JUST CAUSE ends

Too bad, looks like he had a career of which to be proud. Enlisted time with Good Conduct Medal, completion of PLDC and BNCOC, commissioned
through OCS, first class diver, IOBC & IOAC, outstanding marksman, leader time in good units (9th ID in Lewis, 2nd ID in Korea, 7th ID in Ord). 

==========================

This guy stretches every single thing he's ever done or seen done into a hero scenario, and I don't think he will stop.  I want the P.O.W Network
to list him with an annotation that he verbally apologized.  I have not yet received a response from him to this message below summarizing our
phone conversation. 
RLTW

K
===========

Sent: Fri 5/22/2009 9:37 PM
To: ranger2766@hotmail.com

Mr. Hill,

I appreciated your call and your personal apology.  I want to emphasize again that I believe you have conveniently allowed the truth to stretch
and you have enjoyed the benefits of others believing things about you that aren't true.

...

Your actual service as I said was honorable.  I thank you for that, and I accept your apology.  Because of that, I'm recommending to the
investigating agency that they do not pursue this issue - however I am also recommending that they keep your name in their database, along with a
note that you verbally apologized.
 
I further recommend that you reply all to this email and apologize, and admit that you are not a ranger.  Finally, get a new email address and
delete this one.

Regards,

K

Hinojosa, Fortunato  Jr.

RETURNED TO LISTING

 . 05/2006

Posts on FreeRepublic.com

Claims to be a former Ranger class 13-87. Claims to have fought in the Battle of Mogadishu.

His profile can be found here. http://www.freerepublic.com/~speedaddiction/

Class picture is found here: https://www-benning.army.mil/rtb/ranger/photo/13-87.jpg

He claims:  "There are two black guys right behind the class sign. Go up three from the black guy on the right and over one to the right. I am in the olive drab jungle fatigues."

 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1637096/posts?page=39#39

REAL RECORDS:  http://mysite.verizon.net/res6rexj/busted/

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/user-posts?id=178708
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:48:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Nato Hinojosa <natonator2000@yahoo.com
Subject: Apology from Fortunato Hinojosa III
Sirs,
 
I submit this apology to your site and to all Rangers and combat veterans I have surely offended by my actions and claims.  On various site on the internet and to several people I met I claimed to have been assigned to 3rd Ranger Battalion and to have fought in Panama and the Battle of Mogadishu.
 
These were nothing less than lies.  While I did serve in the US Army (1988-1991), I was a 31K (Combat Signaler) and was not even Airborne Qualified, let alone a Ranger.  I served during Desert Shield/Desert Storm, but was not in the theater, I was in Korea assigned to Charlie Company, 1st Signal Battalion at Camp Colbern.  Before being shipped to Korea I served 11th ADA Brigade at Ft. Bliss, Texas.
 
I cannot apologize profusely enough to the men who did live through the deeds I lied to have been a part of.  Because of my job (I own a business) I interact with many veterans passing through, usually make it a point of conversation.
 
After being exposed as a fraud, I had an encounter with a vet.  It was somehow liberating to state what my service consisted of and not claiming any heroics.  In the long run, being busted is a good thing.  I only hope that the men I have offended, can find it in their hearts to forgive my transgressions.
 
Thank you,
 
Fortunato Hinojosa III
Jansen, Kellard Earl

Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 14:24:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: K Jansen <kellardjansen@yahoo.com>
Subject: UPDATED Apology!!!

Re:Jansen, Kellard Earl
01/2006
Claims retired Navy SEAL and served in Grenada, Lebanon, Desert Shield/Storm.  Claims to have been a member of SEAL Team 2 Also claims that for some administrative reason he does not actually wear the "Budweiser," but is nonetheless a genuine SEAL.
*********************************************************
 
I wanted to sincerely apologize for my actions that were misinterpreted. As I thought that I had apologized to all concerned for what I had said while I was in a very depressed and reaching state of my life. But judging from your web site it had not happened completely.  I never intended to insult the Men who earned the right to be called SEALS.  I state to all that I was never a SEAL, and for any confusion that I have caused I am extremely sorry.
 
To those I give honor and ask you each for forgiveness, in the Name of God in Whom I Trust.
 
Again, please accept this extended apology for any confusion that this may have caused.

R/

K Jansen

Killenger, Fred E.                                                                                                    

http://dan0oo.com/mboard/index.php?topic=8958.0
"yes I did serve in Africa for two years, two years in South America and one year in Afghanistan.  In all of your infinite knowledge, you should be the first to know that we 
have had Ranger units in many, many countries
for the last 30 years.  I'm damn proud of my service record, and you are nothing to me."

http://p082.ezboard.com/bshocklinesforum.showUserPublicProfile?gid=pike2007@shocklinesforum
"Spent (9) years in the USMC and US Army. Was an Army Ranger and fought in South Africa, South America and Afghanistan."

http://forums.military.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/69719858/m/9290026721001/p/1
Be sure to read both pages of the thread on this message board.  You will see various excerpts that are alleged to be from his resume.  As you will see, his service with the Rangers 
allegedly took place in the early 80s.
=======================================

You really believe you can get someone?s service record? You are such a pathetic asshole and I will be visiting you real soon. You and your idiot friends can bury that thread you 
have posted on the Dark Places forum, but it cannot be buried where it cannot be found. You are a vile piece of shit who never served your country at all, but yet try to besmirch others
 who did. I stand by my record, and you are such a liar, because you are right, Special Forces, including the Rangers, are a close knit community and would never, ever give you the 
time of day, let alone any information about anyone who served with them. You really are na?ve if you think I haven?t contacted the authorities about this. You, who seem to think 
you know so much, have broken the law with this and you, Dan and your little chums at your hate forum are in for a rude awakening very soon. Try to scramble as much as possible, 
but you can hide nothing that cannot be found. Find out how much your government likes pricks like you attempting to lie about veterans like myself that fought for our country. 
You will be someone?s bitch very soon, and as I truly do know people in high places, I?ll make sure you get the proper greeting when you arrive there. You are so fucking dumb 
you don?t even realize how much trouble you are really in.

Fred

========================================
Tuesday, July 10, 2007

To whomever:

  The individual who apparently e-mailed you has been carrying out a vicious vendetta against me for calling him out as the liar and coward his is.  His name is  
 [WITHHELD]   and I am more than sick of dealing with him.  I have no need to prove myself or my service record to anyone and will no longer play this game.  
If you want to check up on my status, feel free to do so.  I can assure you I will never be on the list you sent to me.  If you allow yourself to fall into this man's game, 
you are just making a fool out of yourself.  Want to hear what he did?  Went onto a forum and asked everyone who was a veteran to put their service and dates served 
because he was doing research into a later book, and he lied to every one of them as it was just a trap to get to me.  How ignorant can you get?  I have turned him in, 
as well as an ex-Marine who interviewed me for a job and then put his "gut feelings" down on a forum for all to see, which is against the law.  Sorry Ranger Steve Jaeger,
I refuse to prove myself to anyone, if you want to hold a full scale investigation of my records, please feel free.

======================================================
                                         RECORDS
======================================================

 August 13, 2007
I was never a Ranger. Never served in Africa, South America or Afganistan. Never won the Bronze Star of any purple hearts. Received
honorable discharges from both services. Was discharged as a Private because I got mixed up with soldiers who got caught with hash and went
down with them. No brig time, I requested an early out as I did not feel I deserved what I got even though I took it as high up the chain as I
could. No reason to lie, just did. Boo is right, one minute I love and the next I hate. Just diagnosed with bipolar disorder last week after a
lifetime of depression and anxiety. No excuse for the lying. My mother was a cronic depressive all of her life and just killed herself four
months ago. Have not been the same since, but still no reason to lie. I do apologize to all who served in elite units who deserve the credit I
tried to get. This can be posted anywhere your forum chooses. I give no excuses and ask for no forgiveness. Jon was right from the beginning and
caught me in my lies, so I apologize to him for calling him a liar for his accomplishments to make myself look better. I deserved to get caught
and I did. My only hope now is to get better with the new medication I am on and keep seeing the psychiatrist I'm now seeing for the first time
ever. To all I deceived and called liars, I apologize because they caught me in my lies. I expect no mercy and if you desire to report me
to any military organization, you have every right to. You now have the story, do with it what you will. I'm tired of the lies, the arguments,
I'm just tired.

KLEIN, JOHN 06/2008 Long Island

Amityville. 

 www.plentyoffish.com/member7918189.htm 

Claims he was a Navy Seal, and is now working as a special agent for the CIA. 
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:59:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Klein <jnm5108@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: jnm5108@yahoo.com
Subject: im sorry
To: info@pownetwork.org
Cc: jnm5108@yahoo.com
to whom this may concern my name is john klein
i want to apologies and clarifie i am not a navey seal and i dont work for the cia
 
im sorry and all my lies have been nothing but a real big problem for me all i have dont is hurt the people i care about
and disrepect everyone that has served or is serving now
please except my apologies
 
john klein
====================================================================

Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:22:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Klein <jnm5108@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: jnm5108@yahoo.com
Subject: im sorry
To: info@pownetwork.org

Dear Friends and Veterans,                                        
                                          I want to sincerely apologize for my past actions regarding the gross misrepresentation of my past military service.  My motives were not meant to harm or dishonor those who have fought and bled foe this country.  My motives were quite personal and at times painful.  I realize now and have for many years, I come to the conclusion that for whatever reason, living this daily lie was borne out of a tragic need to be someone people looked up to and admired.  I unfortunately felt that just being john was not good enough.  I am now met with full force of rage many betrayed people are justly giving me. I am given, for the first time, a look at myself as simply john,  and standing on my own two feet. what I have done, was not to harm anyone or any veteran who served this country.,  I hope you can look to the good I have tried to do and remember that my sham has brought me great shame, as it should. I am finding it difficult to forgive myself and ask you all if you can find a place in your heart to forgive me for what I have done and let me go on with my life with this new albeit soiled identity.      sincerely, john klein
Kubash, Andrew Steven  Jr.
aka Kubash, Andy		 01/2005 == Milwaukee, WI

Claims: he had gone on active duty, served as a Ranger battalion commander, graduated from jump school at age 40, been awarded the Combat Infantryman's Badge with two stars for Panama, Grenada and the Gulf War, been wounded ("shot in the ass") as a major during a combat jump into Grenada, graduated from the Army War College and was RIF'ed out as a lieutenant colonel after 18 years of active duty. Claims he received a big separation benefit in exchange for waiving his reserve retirement benefits. Uses a Ranger cigarette lighter and an email address rangerandy@wi.rr.com. Claims his branch was special operations. Claims to have born in Limerick, Ireland (far from Newport, PA) to an Irish mother and an American father.  Claims his father, was also an Army Ranger, allegedly was a full colonel and often kids him about only being "half a colonel."  Claims a son, a West Point graduate and "third generation ranger," served in Afghanistan as the S-3 of a Ranger battalion and is expected to be a below the zone selectee for promotion to lieutenant colonel. Claim he now has a master's degree.  

Records give no indication of any active duty other than for training, no CIB's, no foreign service, no Purple Heart, no campaign medals, no promotions to major or lieutenant colonel, no Ranger tab, no parachutist badge, no Army War College, etc. ALL duty assignments in record are in WISCONSIN. ONLY awards are AFOJA and SAEMR. Rank, Captain. Records read "discharged", not "retired."

From: "Andrew Kubash, Jr." <rangerandy@wi.rr.com
To: <info@pownetwork.org
Subject: Apology of Andrew S. Kubash Jr.-Exposed Fake
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:33:42 -0600
To All it May Concern:
 
I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely apologize to all those I have insulted and misled by my extensive false claims of military service and achievements.
 I regret that I have taken the liberty to try to be someone, and something I never was. Your summary of my non-accomplishments is accurate.None of my listed claims 
are valid or truthful. It is most humiliating to be exposed as a fake and "wannabe", and at the suggestion of someone I betrayed, I submit this apology. I hope that you 
accept this total confession of my fraudulently claimed achievements.

All my lies were of the nature of verbal barroom bragging and deception, and not for monetary or political gain. Yet a liar is a liar.

My truthful military history was entering the WI Army National Guard as a PVT in 1965, discharge from the USAR  in 1976 and concurrent commissioning to 1LT, and
 transfer to the Retired Reserve in 1988 as a CPT (Armor Branch).

My e-mail address is a play on the Texas Rangers, a nickname I had as a police officer many years ago; and not a reference to an unearned military award.

                                                                                                                                               Yours truly,

                                                                                                                                               Andrew S. Kubash Jr.

Kutz, Norman    05/02/01

Kutz, Norman - Fayetville, NC [claims Navy Cross, assassin, new identity, entire team BUT him massacred, massive murder of  civilians in girlfriends abduction, AND MORE!!) 

 ACTUAL  service, less than 8 months - NO SEAL training. 04/2001

READ HIS APOLOGY AND THE AFTERMATH !!!!! 
Richard La Flame
Claimed paratrooper, (jumps damaged his knees) CIA, POW....

May 16, 2002

Mr. Chuck Schantag
P.O.W. Network
Box 68
Skidmore, MO 64487

Per your request:

I thought that I had apologized to all concerned for what I had said while I was very heavily medicated and drinking. But judging from your letter I did not.

I state to you that I was not a POW.

I wish to apologize to any and all persons who I may have unjustly harmed by so stating.

I will never again suggest to anyone that I am anything other than that which I am.

My Sincerest Apologies
[signed]
Richard La Flame
Box 1622
Sparks, Nevada

p.s. As a footnote here and for your information: I have never and I do not now, wear any medals or ribbons, I do not draw or receive any kind of VA or disability 
benefits from or related to this and I do not have any kind of POW Plates on my vehicle.
LAMKE, PATRICK L

AZ

11/2008


Claims Prisoner of War, Navy Cross, Silver Star, Purple Heart, Bronze Star.

NEVER A POW

Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:01:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Patrick Lamke <patricklamke@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: patricklamke@yahoo.com
Subject: Patrick L. Lamke
To: info@pownetwork.org

It is great thing and service that you and military.com do.
 
I accept responsibility. I am not a member of military.com or any other military organization. Other 
than family awards and medals for service I have none.
 
I make no reference now or in the future of association with any branch of the U.S. Military. No 
harm was intended.
 
Thank you Military.com and pownetwork for the tremendous service you provide to the true American 
Armed Forces and for the individual sacrifices each has made.

Lee, Dominic Eric 
aka
HEALY, TOMMY ROYCE

From: "Eric Lee" <atazm@cableone.net>
To: <info@pownetwork.org>
Subject: Apology
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:47:46 -0700

My name is Dominic Eric Lee, born Tommy Royce Healy.

Your website was recently brought to my attention, and I was shocked and dismayed to learn that I am posted on it.  Worse, I find that I cannot deny much that was said about me; looking at my own papers shows me that your records turn out to be accurate. 

When I left the Army, it was apparently (guessing from an RE code of P4) with a discharge for psychological reasons, and much of the time following was spent in a drug-induced stupor, LSD being my cocktail of choice. While my writings at that period show many nightmares of jungles and war, I can find no record that I was ever actually in Cambodia, nor would I have any knowledge of operations in that theater. My own records, like yours, in fact indicate that I was discharged (honorably) in 1975, a year and a half earlier than my memory tells me occurred.

It seems I've misled myself ... and quite a few others along the way. You all have my sincere apologies for that.  Delusions of grandeur seems an accurate description, but I can see it as no excuse at all.  Thank you for setting the record straight…for me as well as for anyone I may have deceived.  You can’t be as disappointed in me as I am in myself. 

For the sake of that same accuracy, I can find no instance of claiming that I rescued any POWs from any Cambodian POW camps.  Also, the letter still here on my desk is real, signed by General Casey and Secretary Green "for outstanding service to the Nation as a United States Army Soldier"...I have no idea why it was sent if I wasn’t a good soldier.  Maybe someone will clear that up for me as well, along with the meaning of the National Defense Service Medal both your records and mine indicate that I was awarded. 

You’ve stated in advance that you will not accept it but I’ll ask that you let this stand, please, as my humble apology.  All of the above notwithstanding, what I’ve done is to steal valor…and no more to be excused than I would excuse a drunk driver.  I’ve already started the task of trying to disillusion anyone who may have been deceived and/or hurt by this fact.

 

D E Lee.

Lorith, Alan Robert Florida
2007 - Wake Forest, NC

2008 - Raleigh, NC area

 07/01
10/2002
06/2007

05/2008

 Claims USMC joined 1967. Jump Training at Bragg and Ft Dix for training. Captured Sept 1969, released on 2nd flight out June/July 1973. Wounded 3x.
Claims Echo Co 3rd Btn 3rd Mar Regt 3rd Mar Div. Claims music degree from Florida State - FSU denies attendance, degree. Life member Marine Corps League. Accepted on faith that DD214 would be forthcoming.....when it was received it had been "sanitized".

2007 - Still using suspected altered DD214.

Alan claimed to be both a former P.O.W as well as a Purple Heart Recipient

05/27/2008 - Alan was interviewed on the channel 14 news and was claiming to be a retired Marine.  He has perpetrated similar fraud and misrepresentation not only in North Carolina, but in Florida as well

 Dob 1946 in Florida. Security guard, owns an extermination company.

Actual ARMY Records

CONFRONTED in 2003 --  Turned over to the local Marine Corps League Detachment he was a member of . DD214  WAS found  to have been altered.. He was  confronted with the fact he had never been in the Corps nor had he ever been a POW. Charges may be pending.
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:14:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Alan Lorith <alan.lorith@yahoo.com>
Subject: apology of false POW
To: info@pownetwork.org
To whom it may concern;
For several years now i've been lying about a few things.  I'd like to come clean now ince and foir all.  I hasve no excuse for what i've done but am real sorry for the things.  I was never a P.O.W. or in the marines or injured in combat or graduated from Fla State University.  I did falseify my DD For, 214 to show those things.  I just destroyed all of them so you'll never see them again.  Please accept my apology so I can rest easy  f rom now on and I give my word of honor you wont be bothered by my name again.  Thank you, Alan Lorith
-----------------------------------------------------

Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:42:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Alan Lorith <alanlorith@yahoo.com>
Subject: additiuon to my apology I had this piblished yesterday
To: info@pownetwork.org
Cc: Alanlorith@yahoo.com


Sunday, March 22, 2009

To rid this "plague" of distaste in DS I'd like to confess a few things.  Yes I lied about some things,

I dont expect anyone to understand but when my wife died my whole life changed so I started lying to make friends.  No I was never a marine, I was in the Army.  After being  as a grunt they made me a heavy vehicle driver.  When I first arrived in 'nam I worked as a chaplains asst. (a foul up by the Army) for about a month.I was niver captured but within a week after we all caused an uprising along the Ho Chi Min trail.

It wqas  once before, well the flashbacks and the lonineness

of being single all of a sudden caused me to attempt to take my own life.  I was put into the hospital for a while.  I still feel the same but i'n not gonna try that again.

Thank you Wally for setting me straight..

I dont blame everyone for abandoning me, go ahead  I've been abandoned before.

God, please forgive me for lying to these fine people.

=====================================

Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:23:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Alan Lorith <alanlorith@yahoo.com>
Subject: apology
To: info@pownetwork.org

My name is Alan Lorith.  This is the third letter I wrote in two days.  I sincerely am sorry for the fraud I created.  Claiming to be a POW, a college graduate and a marine, they are all lies.
I wish to love the rest of my life in the clear, not in the web of lies so please forgive me.
Thank you.

=============================
  Thanks for the update. I still think this guy has a way to go. He continues to play the victim in his apology. "Go ahead and abandon me..."  He always had an excuse....  He is a tragedy waiting to happen.
From: "Tim Luchon" <tsluchon@comcast.net>
To: <info@pownetwork.org>
Subject: Statement from Timothy Shawn Luchon
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:17:34 -0500

To all who faithfully served in the US Military, and all others concerned,

            Please except my unconditional apology for false statements and fabricated claims I have made as to being a Navy Seal. My words were for selfish reasons only and deeply rooted in selfish pride. I know that by making this statement that many who have trusted me will be hurt, and may not understand. But my hope is that those and others will see how wicked and deceitful our own soul can be, even to the deceiving of, and lying to self. I also hope that others would learn from this, and seek the freedom that comes from the putting down of self, not attempting to lift self above reality, not attempting to justify self, and holding self totally accountable, and open enough to come clean to God and to men.

            With this statement, I have asked forgiveness from God. I do not expect forgiveness from men. I have learned from this that a person can be right in many areas of life, and yet hold to other things, and try to convince themselves into thinking those hidden things will never come out.    T.S. Luchon

McCown, Shaun Michael (SEAL, Navy Cross, revoked Law License)

Subject: Apology
Date:    Tue, 19 Oct 1999 10:59:57 -0500
From:    "Dr.  Michael McCown" trnslatr@swbell.net
To:  "Michael A. Anderson" fatmike@mozcom.com

Mr. Anderson:

         I admit that I have claimed honors that were not mine.  I was never a Seal nor was I connected with UDT or BUDS (nor have I ever claimed to have been), but to the extent that anyone 
thought that I had, I apologize.  I had no intention to damage or offend anyone, and I regret that I did.  I am not a former serviceman, and I apologize for having claimed to be.  I apologize to 
those who served and those who serve.  I have basked in their glory, but I have never sought to profit from it.  For that, I apologize.

Sincerely,
         Michael McCown
POW NETWORK apology to Rawney C. McVaney
Moore, Edward Dean

09/2006

KY

SEE CLAIMS AND RECORDS

Bogus DD214 previously posted on Moore's site.

UPDATE 10/21/2006 
http://www.edmooreforclerk.com/  

UPDATE 10/23/2006
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20061022/NEWS0103/610220389/

http://www.jeffersonreview.com/articles/2006/102306/edward.htm

======================

June 27, 2007

Black eye for Boone County Republicans

These are the type of stories you wish would be swept away with the current.
For Republicans in Boone County of Northern KY, this story became a nightmare when the outspoken former chair of the Boone County Republican Party deceived voters and Republicans by lying about his military record while running for Boone County Clerk.

Ed Moore's wife, Terri, serves as a Boone County Commissioner which adds a twist to the story.
If I remember correctly, the Moores at one time owned a political sign business which they ran out of their home in Union, KY. I believe they went on to file for bankruptcy.

I worked the polls with Terri Moore and I immediately liked her very much . Now her husband Ed Moore was another story. I found him abrasive and aggressive leaving you with the impression that he was a real nut.

One can expect this investigation to have a negative impact on Terri Moore and her position as an elected official.
http://news.nky.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070627/NEWS0103/706270382

Last Updated: 5:44 am | Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Vietnam lies draw probe
Prosecutor looking into Moore's service claims
BY PATRICK CROWLEY | PCROWLEY@NKY.COM <mailto:PCROWLEY@NKY.COM>
A Boone County Republican who dropped out of last year's county clerk race after admitting he faked his military record is the focus of a criminal investigation.

Prosecutor Jim Crawford confirmed Tuesday that the Kentucky State Police are investigating whether Ed Moore broke federal laws by altering military records to make it appear he had served in the Vietnam War in the late 1960s.

Moore, who did not return a phone message left at his Florence home, was in the military. But after questions were raised about his service record, he admitted he lied after initially berating his critics as rumor mongers.

"I did not serve in Vietnam," Moore said in Oct. 22 statement in which he announced he was dropping out of the clerk's race.

"There is no excuse for what I have done," he said. "I realize I have violated the trust of everyone I know, and I am deeply sorry and ask for your forgiveness."

Crawford is the commonwealth's attorney for Grant, Owen and Carroll counties. He was asked by the office of Kentucky Attorney General Greg Stumbo to take the case as a special prosecutor.

Republican Linda Tally Smith is the commonwealth's attorney in Boone County and did not take the case because of potential conflicts. Moore is a former party official, and his wife, Terri, is a county commissioner.

"The state police have opened an investigation, and once they get their review and report done, I'll take a look at it and see what we think needs to be done," Crawford said.

Crawford declined to discuss any further details, but he is scheduled to impanel a grand jury in July.
Questions were raised last year when Moore posted a copy of a form known as a DD-214, a condensed version of a veteran's record, on his campaign Web site.

The form indicates that Moore served overseas for more than two years between 1967 and 1970. It also indicates he received commendations and medals for his Vietnam service.

But in three instances "medal" is spelled "metal" and other parts of the form do not match a DD-214 Moore filed with the Boone County Clerk's office to receive a military veteran's license plate.

The style of type on the forms is also different. And the form filed with the county clerk indicates that Moore only served a week overseas in Europe, and received an honorable discharge.

July 31, 2000

Morrison, James J. --  New York, inmate

Admitted he was NEVER a POW, NOT a Vietnam Vet, but did serve some time in the Air Force.

Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 14:10:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Elton Murphy <eltonmurphy@yahoo.com
Subject: letter of apology
To: webmaster@cyberseals.org

I Elton B. Murphy am a Liar. After a feeble attempt at BUDS in 1986. I rang the bell and dropped on request long before Hell Week. I began my lies just after that. My next duty station was at Long 
Beach, LHA5. After a short peroid. I went UA I was so for about 4 months. During that time I did assault a man just south of San Francisco. I am very sorry . I apologize  to that man and his family. 
I will pay any dues that, that I must. I am extremely sorry I did that. I was not in my right mind at all to do that.

At my end of my unautherized abscence I turned my self in.  I  was returned to LHA5. I was court martialed. Reduced in rank from E-5 to E-1, and spent 30 days in the brigg. I apoigize to the 
Taxpayers for my foolishness.

One entering the Civilian world I did tell many lies over a 16 year peroid. On a handful of occasions I led certain individuals to believe I was a NAVY SEAL. At least one individual did I try to 
convince I went on missions in Central America.

Most of the lies to most people was I attempted to become a NAVY SEAL I did not make it I got hypothermia during hell week. Because of my age of 28 years the BUDS cut off age I would 
not be able to roll over into another class. But I continued the lie to say. They allowed me to stay on as a Photographer. which I did for 1 1/2 years.  I worked for SEAL TEAMS  One Three and five.

The other lie was that I hang out and partied with some of the SEALS and they taught me a few things about protecting myself.

I would like to apologize to all US NAVY SEALS alive who have served this great country. I do appreciate the freedom you have helped to maintain for Americans. I want to apoligize to
 the NAVY SEALS who died in service of this country and their families. God bless them.

I apologize to the Hillsborough County Sheriffs dept. and the NAVY SEALS I was not  attacked by masked men at gunpoint, another lie.

I want to apologize to all Military Personnel active and otherwise. I have lied I am ashamed. Please accept my appology. I do appreciate your service and sacrifice.

To all persons, including family members to whom I have lied to about my military experiences.I am sorry. Please forgive me. Instead of working harder to achieve real achievements, I made them up.

To any persons over the years I have threatened, I mean you no harm.  To all persons involved with helping to show me the error of my ways, thanks, I appreciate your efforts. I mean you no harm. 
I hold no hard feelings toward you. Forgive me if you have felt threatened.

I have named all of the worse  deeds that I have done. To fellow humanity. Except a few of personal nature. I mean in the ramance area and marital areas of my life.

I will not be telling any more lies to the public about my military experiences.  I feel no need to share with the world in writing about my phony SEAL experiences in books or otherwise. Or of the 
experiences leading up to this letter of apology.

I would like the opportunity when given the chance to try to make up for my mistakes to Society. I will obtain counseling to help in that endeavor. I would like to serve my country in the future to 
help keep it free. I support our War against Terrorism!

Sincerely,

Elton B. Murphy    LIAR                                                                                                            

Murry, Lendell
aka
Murry, Lendell Wayne		  09/2004
At 08:22 AM 6/14/2006 -0500
--- sky redpath <sales@checkstomorrow.com wrote:
 
  Why do you still have the lies about Viet Nam on  your web site?  You should  be ashamed.
By the way, all of your writings about God and religion will backfire on you.  God will strike down an outright liar like you.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Lendell Murry [mailto:lendellmurry@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 7:20 AM
To: sky redpath
Subject: Re: Your web site
 
WELL GOOD I GLAD YOU THINK THAT THE LIUES AS YOU MAY
PUT WELL THEN I'M WRITING THIS OR REPLYING TO NO ONE
AN THE PERSON RECIVING IT IS A LIE THEN IF YOU DO NOT
LIKE THEM DO NOT READ THEM BECAUSE THERE'S ALOT OF
PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT DO LOVE MY STORIES THAT I WRITE
EVEN MY BIOGRAPHY.. OF MY LIFE....

Boy, you are crazy.  I hope cholesterol is catching up with you and we won't
have to have a pathological liar around anymore.  You could at least learn
correct grammar and learn to spell.  You dishonor the true heroic POW's.
 
Idiot....

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http://profiles.yahoo.com/lendellmurry

Basics  
Yahoo! ID: lendellmurry
Real Name: LENDELL MURRY
Nickname: BLUEBIRD
Location: 417 sycamore rd trenton ohio 45067
Age: 64
Marital Status: Married
Gender: Male
Occupation: BIBLE TEACHER,COMPUTER TEC
More About Me
Hobbies: COOKING CAMPING FISHING AND TEACHING GODS WORD.COLLECTION OF OLD AN RARE COINS.I;M ALSO A VIET NAM VET 2 PURPLE HEARTS SILVER STARS BRONZE STARS DISTUNGISH SERVISE CROSS CONGRESSNAL MEDAL OF HONOR.....
Latest News: WHEN YOU LOOK FOR GOD LOOK IN HIS WORD YOU;LL FIND IT STUDY 1 TIM.2;15,YOUR NEED WILL BE MEET PHILPIANS 4;19 FAITH HEB,11;1-40 FOR WHEN YOU FIND THE KEY [LOVE OF GOD] IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE YOU CAN

OR

60 - 70.  I WAS STATIONED ALL OVER, 101 AIR BORNE RANGERS CAPTAIN
Company commander IN "CASOION"

OR

 lendell w murry    
Rank:  E-1 Private
Service:  Army
Status:  Retired Military

OR
http://www.militaryunits.com/SpecialOps_project.htm
LENDELL WAYNE MURRY
UserEmail:       LENDELLMURRY@YAHOO.COM		 RANGERS  1965  Dak ToBien HoaNha Trang
I WAS IN THE RANGERS SPECIAL FORCES,TEAM.I WAS STATIONED ALL OVER VIET NAM.

================================================================================================================

RECORDS REQUESTED and St. Louis states NO RECORDS CAN BE LOCATED.

==========================

...  do so with a note to those who come to write
him and request he use a speil chicker. <g

Lendell Murry wrote:

YES WITH THE INESTEREST OF MY FAMILY  I WILL THEN INGOOF FAIITH  DENIY ANY THING THAT I;VE PUT IN MY WEB SITES THAT I;VE MADE.... AN NO I;M NOT SCARED OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ME BECAUSE I;M 65 YEARS OLD AN MY WIFE IS 22 MY OLDEST SON IS THREE MY MIDDLE ONE IS TWO MY YOUNGEST IS ONE I;VE GOT TWO BOYS AN ONE GIRL

FOR WHAT I;VE WRITTEN IN MY STATEMENTS TO YOU I WILL DENIY ANY OR TAKE BACK ANY THING THAT I;VE SAID OR DONE NOW THAT YOU'VE GOT THIS.

THANK YOU IN MY BEST REGARDS LENDELL WAYNE MURRY

417 SYCAMORE RD APT A4
TRENTON OHIO 45067  513 988 6937

http://www.freewebs.com/lendellmurry/

http://pomesshortstorys.blogspot.com/
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May 6, 2005

Mr. Wannabe With A Bible,

This is NOT good enough.  Do not trudge any one but you through the slime you created.  Denying is not apologizing.  Let me outline what you now owe the People of The United States of America for your actions:

1.
Falsely assuming and pretending to be an officer and employee of the United States, a Captain in Army Rangers;  among other things..

18 U.S.C. §912
Not more than 3 years imprisonment, and/or fine $1,000.00, 1 year supervised release, and special assessment $100 (Each count)

2.
Knowingly and willfully made a false, fraudulent, and fictitious material statement and representation;

18 U.S.C. §1001
Not more than 5 years imprisonment, and/or $250,000 fine, 1 year supervised release, and special assessment of $100

3.
Possessing insignia, without authority; of the design prescribed by the  head of the Department of Defense;

18 U.S.C. §701
Not more than 6 months imprisonment,  and/or $5,000 fine, Special assessment of $50.

4.
Knowingly wearing decorations and medals, without authority, authorized by Congress for the armed forces of the United States;

18 U.S.C. §704(a)
Not more than 1 year imprisonment, and/or $100,000 fine; 1 year supervised release, and special assessment of $25.

This will be my last letter to you.

I expect you to send your apology addressed to the MOH Society, The DSC Society, The 75th Ranger Association, and to any one else you have dishonored.  Your claims are to numerous to outline.   Please make sure it is an apology, if you need help on how to properly word your apology, please ask: Mary Schantag info@pownetwork.org to help you. 

I expect to receive your letter by Saturday for forwarding to the various groups you have stolen honor from.

and that is the way it is...
 
 
Joe

Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 10:05:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lendell Murry <lendellmurry@yahoo.com
Subject: my applogy
To: info@pownetwork.org

to whom it may conceren that i my self lendell wayne murry do an hear by say that i;m truly sorry for cliaming to be or have them read that of something that i;ve written.
 i do hear by decline any thing that i have said please accept my sencer applogy for this

regards lendell wayne murry

http://pomesshortstorys.blogspot.com/

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To: <info@pownetwork.org
Date: 10/21/2005
Subject: Lendell Murray Apology

Your supposedly apologetic Lendel Murray lendellmurry@yahoo.com listed on your page of phonies who have apologized has still not removed or corrected his references of military service from his website.  You need to scroll past miles of bible stuff to see it towards the bottom. 

http://www.freewebs.com/lendellmurry/

I hope this bit helps.

===================================

STILL ON HIS WEBSITE 10/21/2005:

1/28/2004

 So he did went back to the musium...come back later on an told me that they were
date back before christ. The pices went to a bank to be put in a vault...an my artfacts are not to be sold under no way.....well it was time that I went to Mexico again to get some drugs.
Well on the way back a police stop me for weaving, so he said the I was weaving an i told him that I was tired he told me that there was a truck stop up the way about 3/4 of a mile..so 
I told him that I'll pull in there an stop for the night. So I did an left in the morning. Well by now I was turning 18 years old,was doing very well for my self. When I was driving down main
 street in Joplin Mo I had a Mustang I had twenty five blocks of drugs in there with me,Then I was being chased by a cop, Then I had no choise but to dump it throught my floor board
 of my car.Well all I had a small bag in my car that was what I got caught with..Well I went to jail, the judge was going to give me twenty years or four years in the servise of my choise, 
So I told the judge the Army and  that I'll be out an right back on the streets. So I went into the army an done my four years, But I signed up for more time, then I went to Ft. Riley Kansas, 
staioned there for some training, survival, then went to Ft. Cambel Ky.to jump school then to OTS. training school for to get my captains bars,
Sgt. Miley told me you can earn them, But go there I know that you can do it for the determation in you is realy suprising to me.

1/31/2004 12;53 P.M. [2/1/2004 12;53 P.M.][ 2/4/2004/ 4;04 p.m.] [2/2/2004 9;31 P.M.] 

Then went on to  Ft.Cambel Ky.to get some more training of the 82 nd Airborne Div.. then got a transfered to the 101 st Air Borne div.
after I got done then we went to fly over canda to take over an air base there in
Wis. we were flying in cirlcles for over an hour then I ask the Sgt. why are we flying in circles? he said how do you know that? I told him is because I can tell the plane turning several times. 
There was one hundred an seventy five guys that was going to jump from the plane. We was to take the Air Base in three weeks but they split up in teams of five. an the one team that I was
 in we did it in two weeks... after that.

There was only a team that was picked to go to  Calfornia... well we spent three weeks there confined to base.Was not allowed to go any where. Every thing they brought to us, then after 
that  we got our orders to go to South Viet Nam. there was only fifteen that was picked out.. An I was the head of my team. There at different times on different missions we would hit an
 run villiages all over the places loooking for viet con;s or v c's...one time we stoped for a rest an out from no where there came a girl of about twelve years old...One of the guys started 
to pick her up I seen a buldge around her I knew it was gernades....I pulled my 44 out an shot her between her eyes she was dead before she hit the ground, It took the whole top of her 
head off. I couldn;t belive my eyes of what I justy did. Only a little girl. But I saved the team of getting killed. We went on from there to casion one of the camps in the middle of four one
 to the east west north an one at the south ..I was to take over as camp camander of the camp till they could get some to take the plase of the one who got killed early on. One night they 
came motor shelling from all around us for three days an nights.....Then it finialy stoped....I looked at one end of the camp an seen one pasing off steps I went to see what was going on 
an ask him what he was doing?  Thought he was just out for a walk he said but the next three days it started again then the same one did it again an then I knew what he was doing I went
 to him an punched him down an said hi viet con... I took him to intergate him. Then we shot him, then for the next two days it was quite  nothing was happening...but that night it started 
in bombming an shells fell all over the plase. they got so many coming that we had to do somthing before they were over running us.

 I looked at one small boy holding a ak47 rifle in his hand someone behind me he;s going to shot you several times then I picked up an m60 recoiless rifle an cut him into, he was about 15 
years old, I ask myself why do they do this to young boys and girls? They had no respect for life as far as thy were concerened.

We went on mission right after another... Every time my R.R. came up they had another mission for us to do.. Then one day they wanted us to go to an air base in north viet nam to destroy
 it, So we went there it took us about three weeks to get there. We knocked out the counncation tower first, the the planes on the run way, Every thing went up in a few hours it looked like 
the four of july fire wooks every where. Then one day in choppers we were shot down. The fifteen of us was taken prisioners they told us there is no escape from here I told them I'll be gone
 before you know what happened. They never checked my boot for a knife.
In a watery cage I went under water to cut the lines from my cage it took me about three days to get them cut. Then was gone all fifteen of us. We found our way back I told the guys that we
 going to come back an get the rest of the prisioners. An we did, there was two hundred an seventy five guys there we got  out destroying the whole camp, every thing in site there, Then we
 got orders to be stationed in Sigion at the Embesey. We did eleven months there then we got oders to chase back some v.c;s back to Camboidia.. On the way there we come across a rise
patty. There was no water in it so we all started back...then all of a sudden I looked down an seen a pin sticking up an shouted mine field!!!!! Every one stoped in there tracks, Well the mine 
sweep found one hundred an seventy five, but missed one an I stepped on it, It tossed me in the air...I knew I had bought my ticket home my legs my fase was torn apart...so I was flown 
back to the United States. an spent almost two years in the hospitial, The doctors told me I'd never walk again, but I knew I was going to with alot of determation an treatment an alot  help
 I did walk... Then in 1972, I went back to Joplin Missouri to look for my girlfriend....Darleen Lett..but she was no where to be found, so I went to the house where we meet. her dad Melvin 
Lett was there with a baby girl....I ask him who the baby mother was? He told me she is dead.  I knew then that was my daughter Susan
she was only six months old an I told him I want my daughter he told me that I was not going to get her. So we went to court an I got cusdoy of her. Before I went back home the president 
gave me the Medal of Honor two purple hearts, bronze star, silver star, servise cross, viet nam servise medal..I went back to Joplin Mo an tryed to find jobs there then finialy went back to 
work for George Williams, being a bar tender... in 1973....also going to scholl at Emporia Kansas. for biblicial research, computer techician, history litature. Then I was working long hours I
 told George that I need a break. .He said that I can take a few days off but be back Monday to go back to work that he needed me that I was the only one that knows what he's doing an
 trusted me....in my work...  Well it was 1985.
Musser, Terry   March 23, 2007

Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 16:21:24 EST
     Subject: apology

     To NAM POWs, Michael Anderson & Mike McGrath:

     I would like to confess and express my sincere apology to the Viet Nam POWs for misrepresenting myself as a POW. I vow to never make a statement like that again, as a combat 
Viet Nam Veteran myself, I never intended for that statement to be put online, but since it was, I regret the consequences that came from it. I have total honor and respect for all 
Veterans and POWs and hope they accept my sincere apology. I have taken my site down and it will
stay down.

     Sincerely,

     Gerald O'Dell 
DAVID ORTIZ   click on link !!
Ozley, Lee Madison Hilton Head, SC 05/2003 Claims  / Actual Records

(2nd apology)
JANUARY 26, 2004

 To Whom It May Concern:
 
 I have told a number of lies, in writing and verbally, about my military service.  I never served in Viet Nam, I never was a POW and did not earn the medals that I claimed to have earned.  I was not a pilot during my military and was released from active duty from the Air Force as a 1st Lieutenant rather than as a Major as I had claimed.
 
 There can be no excuses for this behavior.  I deeply regret this action and offer my profound apology and request forgiveness from those I have cheated, misled, and diminished by my disregard for honesty and my own moral standards.
 
 It is unlikely that this apology will reach the number of peole that my falsehoods did.  But for those who know me, this public forum will, hopefully, demonstrate the sincerity of my apology.
 
 Lee Ozley
 ------------------------
 
 Lee M. Ozley
 311 Seabrook Drive
 Hilton Head Island, SC 29926
 843-681-6570
 Fax 843-681-2678
 Cell 843-816-2843
Re: Poser Tim Paquin:
 09/18/2007

It is time for me to be a man.

I am a loser, poser wannabe and a jackass to boot.  This is the first and only time that I have ever done anything like this.

When I wrote my post, I worded it very carefully.  I didn't think that it would cause this type of a firestorm.  About 90% of the stuff I put
on there is real.  I did have 3 ARCOM's, 4 AAM's, and the other ribbons.  I was in ROTC for a short while, and I did receive my Eaker award
when I got to Colorado Springs Cadet Squadron, about a year after I left CAP as a cadet.  I did earn my Ranger Challenge tab and was also
awarded a Marauder tab in college (University of Oregon).  I told my Bn SGM, a former Ranger Batt. 1SG, that I wanted to be a Ranger.  He gave me a
tab and told me to go and earn it.

I left college to be a Ranger.  I got an enlistment contract with the RGV4 and took the 13F MOS to get it.  I didn't make it to RIP.  I was
then stationed at Fort Carson from Dec. 1996 to June 1998 with 3/29 FA.   I also made a pit stop in Kuwait from Sept. 97-Dec. 97.  I got my
orders for Korea while I was there.  I was with the 1/506 (AA) IN in Korea stationed at Camp Greaves and Camp Giant.  I reenlisted to come back to
Ft. Carson because of my ex-wife (another stupid move).  During the reenlistment ceremony, I was given a pair of Korean jump wings with a hat
and my rank on it from a KATUSA.  Upon returning to Carson, I had one more chance at Ranger School.  I didn't get a slot.  My Army career and
my marriage were quickly going down the tubes and I attempted suicide three times before I was put out of the Army for a "personality
disorder."  I was fully intent on waiting out the two years before I could reenlist with the sole goal of getting to Ranger School.  Then, I got
Lautenburged.

I honestly feel that I have let everyone down.  I grew up wanting to be like my dad, Gordon McIntosh, Terry Clark, and some of the other guys
that I knew and greatly respected.  I remember seeing my dreams crash as the RIP instructors picked up the other guys in front of 1/507th.
  From there, my life went downhill.  I have never been a true Army Ranger, and never deserved to be.  I wanted the brotherhood and the chance to
feel that I was part of something special.  I now realize that I am simply a sack of cow poo festering below a field latrine.

To every Ranger who has ever served, I give you my deepest apology.  To those who have died, on the battlefield and elsewhere, my deepest
respect.   To anyone who tries to fake the tab, realize that you will eventually be hunted and your true colors will show.  For anyone trying to
deceive now, come straight.  You know who you are and you know that you didn't do what you say you did.  A true Ranger knows a brother and can
sniff the BS you lay down.  To everyone I have let down, I don't know what to say.  I am simply a moron for thinking that I was something I am
not.

With the deepest respect I add:

Rangers Will Always Lead the Way

Personal note to "Bubba:"  You are a true inspiration to all of your students.  Teach them to be the best.  Lord knows I could have learned a
lot from you.
Pankowitz, Keith 05/2009 Angeles City , Philippines NOT  A SEAL

Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 
From: Keith Pankowitz < >
Subject: Hello
To: info@pownetwork.org

I would like my name removed from your website. I'm sorry for doing what I did. I deleted my Navy Seal from my profile. I made a mistake, which I am very sorry for. My name is Keith Pankowitz
 
 
Thanks
 
Keith Pankowitz

 

aUGUST 2009
Anyway, Mr, Pankowitz is now a fake Rolex wearing wannabe pornographer operating out of the Philippines with another clown named "Jimmy Regina."
Powell, John Edward

TX

04/2006

Everyone...

Popcorn is a great person...he goes out of his way to help out all Veterans..injured, or not...I know him well, and he is being sincere about his request..

He was captured in Viet Nam,,and was beaten so severely, he can hardly stand or walk for any distance..

He got his name from being the guy who makes the popcorn at all home games of the Dallas Stars, and Maverick's..he abslotely loves to fish...he will sit on a pier and catch hardheads with the 
enthusiasm some of you hardcores chasing Trophy Trout..

John Powell
972-913-5087
email: popcornmanishere@msn.com

EXPOSED

http://comcast.dallasstars.com/multimedia/multimediaDetail.jsp?areaId=6400

"Held 3 years as a POW in Vietnam....." "512 of us..."
"30 yrs, 10 months, 9 days ago..."

Popcorn man

03/17/2004

Retired veteran John Powell inpires the Dallas Stars with his valued support...and popcorn!

The Dallas Stars website noted above where he got VIDEO exposure to perpetrate the fraud! The link  was removed hours after a phone call informing the Dallas Stars they had been conned.

RECORDS show

Regular Army from Jan 26, 1968 until Dec 17, 1968.
Discharged a Private. ONLY awards, National Defense and Sharpshooter's Badge. Stationed in Texas and Alaska.
From: "John Powell" <popcornmanishere@msn.com
To: info@pownetwork.org
Subject: Please post to your site...................
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 04:02:31 -1000
Sir,
 
 I don't know if this letter will get to you but after reading on your site that you would post an apology I thouught it would be worth a try.
 In March of this year I was exposed as a Phoney. For 14 years I had been telling a select few of my friends that I had been captured in Vietnam and held as a P.O.W. This is not true. I did serve in the United States Army but I have had no " in country fighting experience " while doing my time in the service.
  I guess this all started for me in 1973 when the guys that had been held started comming home from being held in Vietnam. I saw all the respect they were getting and I felt I needed to have that respect in my life. So I started telling certain people that I had this experience. I have never received any money or any other monantary item for the story. At least I don't think I have.
  To this network: I want to say thank you for your work and for getting this in the open. Prior to your exposing me as a fraud I didn't know how to end the story and face the truth. Now, that all the truth is on the table I can not tell the same lie anymore. I am seeing a psycologist twice a month now and I am taking a drug for my "mood" changes. The "Divalproex" has done alot for me and I wish that I would have had it years ago because I would not be in the trouble I went through.
As I go about my daily life now I have learned that being proud of the time I served in the Army is not a bad thing but a good thing. I have learned through the last 8 months of counseling at the hospital I have been at that I don't have to make myself out to be more than I am. I have learned that telling other vets my true duties about what I did in the service is a good thing because they express their respect for me. Again, let me say thank you to this network for helping me. I wish it would have been sooner.

  To all Veterans: I am sorry for what I have done. By lieing about my experience and pretending to be a returned POW from Vietnam I have degraded what you the true heros of this country have done. If I ever get to meet you then I will apologize to you in person. I am truly sorry and my hope is that you could forgive me. Now that I am on medication it will never happen again. I was very wrong in doing this and it is time for me to stand up and take responcibility for my actions.

  To everyone: With the passage of the wannabe bill in Congress It is not only against moral law but civil law and federal law to impersonate a true hero. I am glad this is in place. I talked to my Congressman and He voted for it.

 In closing I hope that everyone can forgive me for what I did.
  Thank You
   John Powell
Quitugua, Anthony 05/2006 .
Claims Navy SEAL for eight years.  
.
From:  Tony Quitugua" <quituguas@surewest.net
To: <info@pownetwork.org
Subject: Apology
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:51:40 -0700
     I wanted to sincerely apologize for my actions.  I never intended to insult the Men who earned the right to be called SEALS.  I'm also ashamed
because my family never knew that I was living a lie.  For that I'm extremely sorry.  I had such low self esteem that I tried to be something
that I am not to make myself look good.  I will never say that I was a SEAL. I was just a regular Navy sailor who served his country.

Anthony Quitugua
Rainwater, William Lexington,  KY
Ocean Shores, WA		 multiple reports
latest 12/01		 2001 claims USAF, Rescue Medic, with POW license Plates!! Claims POW in Vietnam 2 years. Has Purple Heart membership card.

6ft tall, ponytail, feather earring, lacks physical conditioning.

From: "Kelley Rain-water" <airforce2@coastaccess.com
To: "P.O.W. Network - Chuck and Mary Schantag" <info@pownetwork.org
Subject: Re: Thank You
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:41:14 -0800

I want to thank you for your web site. If not for the site I would have continued my life of lies. I notified MOPH today and asked them to remove me  from their membership list as I have never been 
awarded the PH. I will return the POW tags on my car Tuesday ( Monday is a holiday) and get real tags. I have removed all stickers from my car that implied I was a Nam vet, a PH recipient or a POW. 
I have told my wife all. She suspected that I was not honest concerning my military records. I will talk with both of my sons this 
weekend. By the way, they both served proudly in the U.S.A.F. If asked by anyone that notices that I no longer have a POW tag I will tell them "I never was a POW nor did I serve in Viet Nam." 
Again I wish to thank you and the persons that reported my lies..

With Respect,
Bill Rainwater

=======================

From: "Kelley Rain-water" <airforce2@coastaccess.com
To: <info@pownetwork.org
Subject: Re: Exposed
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 08:39:45 -0800

I have represented myself as a former POW. Of course this is not true. I am a USAF veteran of the Viet Nam era but never served overseas. I make no excuse for doing this other than trying to 
find a reason to validate my being on this earth. I apologize to all persons that I have angered or hurt by my misrepresentations of being someone I was not. I am a coward. I will never imply nor 
outright lie to anyone again concerning my military service. I am 55 years old and it's time I became truthful and honest with all. I am not asking for forgiveness nor would I expect it. I only want 
it to be known that I am truly repentant for the claims I had made and only ask that I am believed when I tell you "Never Again".

With Respect...
Bill Rainwater
Reberry, Larry

Ashland, MO

09/2005
03/2008

ARCHIVED links:    http://www.fitour.com/reberry.cfm

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"about my life - from a P.O.W. in Vietnam to a bodybuilder..."

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http://ashland.missouri.org/Government.html

Larry Reberry
(573) 657-1834

lreberry@ashlandmo.us

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Subject: Article
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:09:27 -0500

My name is Larry Reberry and i am not going to say a lot but the link that said i was a p.o.w has taken it off because i said that what they wrote was wrong! Yes what it should have read is after i came back from nam i spent all most a year in jail  for poss. of marihuanna and during this time i needed help from my government instead they put me in a 4foot by 8 foot jail and feed me a coffee and jelly sandwhich for breakfast and coffee and peanut butter for lunch and a turkey tv dinner for dinner and what i said this was worse are all most as worse as a p.o.w! Yes i can see how confusing this could be but to verify my jail sentence after only being home for less than a week you can contact the sedalia democrat in sedalia mo in 1970-71. 0ne more thought on this subgect is i was held captured for 2 weeks out side of a small village around f.s.b blue and was with b 5th aw sl 2nd arty.This i have been trying to prove after a lot of transitional hypno therapy from a dr. higdon in Columbia mo. at the V.A THERE but after spending countless hours e-mailing every one that my company has given me names to still no one has E- mailed me back but i am still trying.You have to remember one more thought i had pnemonia so bad i lost my memory and this makes it even more confusing! I have spent all most 2 years of my life at Ft. Roots in North Little Rock Arkansas there i was treated by a DR. Freeman and i even hard a lawyer to help also.I hope this does explain a little about my situation? 1980s 90s and to this day in the Va. IN cOLUMBIA mO. and the 80s and 90s at FT. Roots drs FREEMAN THERE AND DR, Higdon in Columbia Thanks  LARRY REBERRY
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Subject: info
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:28:15 -0500

One more though i do have a lawyer her firms name is ms Girard at ABS LEGAL SYSEMS OUT OF LAWRENCE kANSAS. SHE HAS FOUND A LOT OF RECORDS IN MY FAVOR OUT OF PER RECORDS IN VIRGINIA. Anther thing i would like to clear up recently my brother passed a way and we both were together in nam at the same time i was on a duster 16f10 cannoneer not radio teletype my brother was on a searchlight both with the same outfit Thank you Larry Reberry

REBERRY,  LARRY W AR E03 05C2O

05C
  RADIO TELETYPE OPERATOR
  RADIO TELETYPE TEAM CHIEF

Served Nov 68-Nov 71
Delivered-To: info@pownetwork.org
From: Larry Reberry <larryreberry56@msn.com>
To: <info@pownetwork.org>
Subject: apologys
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:45:25 -0500

First i would like to say i am tired of saying i was a former P.O.W and want to apologise to all P.O.WS for my lieing. Recently i lost my brother Terry a former viet nam vet who served with me in Nam in the same outfit at the same time. We also have the same diseases from c.h.f. to copd. to cancer and watching his funeral MADE ME THINK THEN AND NOW I DO NOT WANT TO LEAVE THIS WORLD BEFORE I TELL THE WORLD I HAVE LIED ABOUT BEING A P.O.W. I hope you can for give me and all others can for give me and god can for give me for my lieing!!! Both me and my brother before he died loved are country and were proud to call our selves Viet Nam  VETS.

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Delivered-To: info@pownetwork.org
From: Larry Reberry <larryreberry56@msn.com>
To: <info@pownetwork.org>
Subject: Recieve Apology
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:55:02 -0500

Did you recieve my apology and if you did not once again i am sorry for saying i was a p.o.w and i will never say it again for the rest of my life! Another thing i wanted to say is i am sick and before i leave this world i wanted to tell all the p.o.ws i am sorry i no they went through hell and i am sorry!!! ANOTHER THOUGHT I WANTED ALL TO TELL I LOST MY BROTHER  TO A LOT OF DIFFERENT DISEASES WE BOTH HAD ONLY HE WENT FIRST. WE WERE BOTH NAM VETS AND SPENT COUNTLESS HOURS IN HOSPITALS! AGAIN I AM SORRY TO SAY I WAS A P.O.W AND PLEASE TO ALL P.O.WS I AM SORRY WITH NO EXCUSES FOR EVER SAYING I WAS. ALSO TO ALL I HAVE HURT AND TO GOD PLEASE FOR GIVE ME REGUARDS LARRY REBERRY

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Delivered-To: info@pownetwork.org
From: Larry Reberry <larryreberry56@msn.com>
To: <info@pownetwork.org>
Subject: Apology!
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:55:12 -0500

P.O.W. NETWORK!
According to your net work you said if we apologised with no excuses you would except this? I have made no excuses and made 2 apologies and again i am sorry!Please except my apology and if i should say any thing else would you let me no so i can get on with my life knowing that you for give me? I will do what ever you want Thanks Larry Reberry
RICKERT, GERHARD

aka "GARRY" RICKERT

aka GARY RICKERT

aka Xavier Swan

 03/2008
02/2009		 JAPAN

CA

  Lahaina, Hawaii

 Claims:
- SEAL (he's not)
- MIT graduate (he's not)
- computer hacker (he's not)
- street car racing (conned his way into a few minutes of screen time in a Discovery Channel docu on the subject here in Japan)

... in addition to which he uses these and other false claims to get jobs (which never last long), con his way into social and professional groups, and bilk women here out of their fortunes.

Name:  RICKERT, GERHARD

Note:  I stopped him dead in his tracks at a bar here two years ago when I first encountered this bullshit artist.  I had only one thing to say to him:  "What was your BUDs class number and graduation date?"  Answer:  Silence, accompanied by a cold sweat and a question *from him to me*:  "... ah-ah-are you gonna hurt me?"


2009:

     
http://www.socialcigar.com/profile/GaryRickert)

Location: Emeryville, California or  Lahaina, Hawaii

Still stating he was an ex-Seal, went to M.I.T. and has a Master's Degree

Cigars and Ferrari are a hobby of his.

... Mr. Gerhard Rickert’s claims of being a Navy SEAL have no basis in fact. If the name provided is spelled correctly, I do NOT find a listing in the SEAL database of successful graduates for anyone named GERHARD RICKERT. I have also examined possible alternate spellings, and names with similar pronunciations. Please be aware that I do not have access to any records (official or unofficial) listing the names of individuals who reported for SEAL training, but who subsequently failed to complete the training program.

Unless he has undertaken the unlikely action of a legal name change (an action for which there would be court documentation) since his claimed attendance at BUD/S training, and based upon the information you have provided, I can state conclusively that GERHARD RICKERT has NEVER COMPLETED SEAL training, and he is not now, nor was he ever a Navy SEAL. ...

Steve Robinson

Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:13:38 -1000
Subject: Re. Gerhard Rickert
From: Gary Rickert <gary.rickert@gmail.com>
To: info@pownetwork.org

Dear POWnetwork,

I would like to say I am sorry for claiming I was a SEAL as I am not nor ever have been. It was a childish mistake made by me in my past and I have grown out of this. 
{ NETWORK NOTE:   Evidence exists claims of  SEAL WERE 2006 and Master Degree were made multiple times on multiple sites in 2008.} Although I made the claims, I do not have a Masters degree let alone any degree. I never Went to MIT. I hope you can accept my apologies and I promise you will never hear of me again. You have my contact information and are more than welcome to contact me at anytime. 

Kindest Regards,
Gerhard Rickert

CLARIFICATION
Edward R. Rivera, EPSOM

Monday, November 12, 2001

EPSOM - Edward R. Rivera, 68, died on Nov. 1 at his home after a long battle with complications from military-related injuries and illness. He was born in Boston's North End, the son of Joaquin and Mary (Sacco) Rivera. He moved to Pittsfield in 1975, then settled in Epsom in 1988. He was a 20-year veteran of the Army. He retired as sergeant major in 1970. He was a member of the Army's Special Forces unit and a first inductee Green Beret. He served in combat in both the Korean Conflict and the Vietnam War. His military achievements included a Congressional Medal of Honor "for bravery in the face of insurmountable danger; for single handedly being responsible for the rescue of an entire platoon and innocent South Vietnamese civilians from certain demise." He was also awarded three medals of commendation "for bravery and actions above and beyond the call of duty," seven Purple Hearts (two in Korea and five in Vietnam), six Oak Leaf Clusters and four Bronze Stars. He was an expert in jungle warfare and special weaponry. He was responsible for the training of the South Vietnamese soldiers under his command. For 20 years, he was the proprietor of the Liberty Tavern, otherwise known as Rivera's, on Route 28 in Barnstead. He actively supported the Barnstead Little League, the Boy Scouts of America and the Barnstead Fire Department. He was a member of the New Hampshire Disabled American Veterans Color Guard, serving as its commander for many years through the 1970s and 1980s. He was also a member of the Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 41 and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post No. 4029 in Pittsfield. ... A memorial service will be celebrated at the New Hampshire Veterans Memorial Cemetery Chapel in Boscawen on Wednesday at 1 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Epsom Police Association, P.O. Box 10, Epsom, 03234. The Perkins Funeral Home & Monument Co., Pittsfield, is in charge of arrangements.

Concord Monitor and New Hampshire Patriot
     I would like to offer this clarification/correction with regard to the Military Record of my uncle,  Edward R. Rivera. I came across your website and was surprised  and      upset to see my uncle listed there.  The obituary you have printed was based on  information given to the funeral director by a  mis-informed relative.  When it was printed and we saw the reference to the Congressional Medal Of Honor, we had a new one printed as we knew that he was not a recipient of that honor. However, his career was a very distinguished one that need not be embellished. My uncle was very quiet about his accomplishments, and NEVER CLAIMED ANY HONOR THAT HE DID NOT   RECEIVE. There was no need to. What I have been able to verify is as follows:
    Army Occupation Medal - Germany
     Korean Service Medal Bronze Star
     National Defense SVS Medal
     United Nations Service Medal
     Good Conduct Medal
     2 Letters of Commendation
     4 Letters of Appreciation
     Good Conduct Medal
     Good Conduct Medal - 4th
     National Defense SVS Medal w/OCL
     Combat Infantry Badge
     Purple Heart           April 2,1964
     Purple Heart 1st OCL   June 4, 1964
     Purple Heart 2nd OCL   March 28,1967
     Army Commendation Medal July 1962 - December 1963
     Army Commendation Medal (OCL) May 11, 1967
     Vietnam Campaign Medal
     Vietnam Service Medal
     Bronze Star  December 1966 - November 1967
     Bronze Star 1st OCL  November 1967 - March 1969
     Purple Heart 3rd OCL February 15, 1968
     Good Conduct Medal 5th
     Dates listed above are achievement dates.
   
     He retired on November 11,1970 as, Sergeant First Class
   
     Please accept this clarification/correction with  regard to my uncle's Military Service.
   
     Respectfully
     Daniel M. Rivera
Schnell, Dr. Donald B.
aka  Prema Baba Swamiji		 2002
02/2008		 CA, FL, AZ, OR, IA

actual record

 

Dear Don Bendall,

 
Your achievements are many and are truly impressive.  You have certainly engaged in some stellar work on behalf of our country and you are to be commended.  I am also impressed with your stellar writing career and martial arts training and the fact that you also assist to train children.
 
I take full responsibility for the error made by a publicist and marketer of a single claim of the medal of honor on a web site during the years 2000-2001.  Those who have earned the Medal of Honor are true heroes and have made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.  It is wrong to be negligent about such matters and I should have thoroughly proofread that copy and corrected that error immediately.  I deeply apologize for that mistake.
 
Now, however you mistakenly allege that I claim to be a green beret.  You also mistakenly allege that I claim POW status.   Here are your words:
 
 "You claimed to be a Green Beret, a Medal of Honor recipient, and a POW. You stole the valor of others who earned it when you did not. It has been about 24 hours now and no apology."
 
This is not true.  I have never claimed POW status nor have I claimed to be Green Beret.  I have a high regard for the Green Berets and I especially hold a high regard for all POW's.
 
Please accept my apology for the MOH error.
 
Sincerely,
 
Donald Schnell
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Dear Don Bendall,
 
Thank you for your response.  As I stated, I accept full responsibility for the claim of the MOH on a web site in 2000-2001.  All subsequent versions of that web site did not contain that error.  The web site was eventually taken down.  Please accept my apology.
 
Margaret's Military Zendo was a fictionalized piece of writing.  You keep mentioning this article.  Please note that even that article of fiction makes NO mention of me being a POW or a Green Beret. 
 
You also state that my rank was E-4 and that is correct according to the FOIA.  However, in fact I was an E-5 and that is an error in the FOIA.  My captain at the 6th Psyop Battalion was Captain Jimmy Slayton.  I also worked with a Green Beret, Captain Dye.  I in fact did receive a medal for "good service".  I don't know exactly what the medal was specifically called, but it was for doing a job well done and is in the possession of my father. 
 
Next, you truck out an article posted on a broker board associated with my name and Omega Capital Funding and the FBI.  If however, you read through that entire article it is entirely about Von Cummings.  The article doesn't even mention Omega Capital Funding.  A disgruntled broker posted that message and titled it with my name for revenge.  But, out of fairness please read through that FBI posting on Von Cummings and if you are a fair person you will notice that it does NOT mention my name.  Again it is about Von Cummings and Paramount on a deal several years ago. 
 
Lastly, if I have insulted the Vietnam veterans and the Green Berets, I do offer my sincere apologies.  I hope you accept this as not a PARTIAL apology, but a full apology to our armed services and the tremendous sacrifices they make for our country. I also believe that psyops, you said "chairborne" is also a valuable contribution to the military. I am proud of my service to this country.
 
Sincerely,
 
Donald Schnell
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Dear Don Bendell,
 
Thank you for your acceptance of my apology.  As I stated in my last email I take full responsibility for that egregious blunder.
 
Thank you also for bringing to my attention who Chuck and Mary Shantag are.  I have only the deepest respect for any individual who has earned a purple heart.  I have no intentions of pursuing litigation with them, so everybody can calm down.
 
My concern is that I'm asking them to remove what is not true:
 
1.  That I was not an Eagle Scout.  I sent proof that I was in fact an Eagle Scout.  They have graciously now removed that false data and I thank them for that.
 
2.  That I made the claim of POW and service in Vietnam.  I have never made such a claim and that is the truth. 
 
I think fair is fair.  I've admitted to my mistake.  I think they should do the right thing and remove "allegations" of POW etc. 
 
Lastly, while you are having your fun by making light of my religious beliefs I would like to point out that you refer to the fact that I "  I know that you actually have people believe you when you say that you have called up the spirit of Linda McCartney"
 
You seem to be a fair individual and  I doubt that you read my article, "Ghost of a Chance".  This article does talk about Linda McCartney, but nowhere in the four corners of that article is their any reference to the fact that I spoke to, or called up the "spirit of Linda McCartney".  May she rest in peace.  
 
I've been under attack by competitors in another profession and they repeat these falsehoods.  If you have a beef with me about my religious beliefs, fine. One of the reasons that people like Chuck Shantag served in the military is to protect this nation's right to have freedom of religion. 
 
Lastly, you mentioned that your sons are now in the military.  I guess this shows our age!  I congratulate you and them, and hope for their safety during these difficult times.
 
I don't believe we have anything further to discuss.
 
Best Wishes,
 
Donald Schnell
Scigo, Steve A 

03/2007

CO

http://forums.military.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8460043040001/m/6470060611001

From military.com before removal:
Marine SSgt and wearing a CAR, Iraq and Afghanistan ribbons!


His membership states: Marine Corps , Veteran/Prior Service E-6, Staff Sergeant Resides in Colorado
Conflicts & Operations:  Iraq War

 

Evergreen High School , Evergreen, Colorado (CO)

Jennifer Scigo, 1993 - 1997. Steve Scigo, 2000 - 2004. Steve Scigo, 2000 - 2004. Amy Scofield, 1979 - 1980. Casey Scott, 1991 - 1995 ...
www.classmates.com/directory/ school/classmates_8.jsp?org=9186 - Supplemental Result - Similar pages
Subject: explanation/appology
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:28:51 -0500
I went onto military.com and placed myself on there as a marines supporter. I placed the rank of my father and wore everything left to me by him and my grand father. I figured it would looked a little better on me rather then glued to a piece of cardboard then had a photo taken of it. I claimed e6 for my father but never put a unit affiliation figuring this would clarify I wasnt enlisted. I did not know how to work the forums of military and by the time i figured out how I had about 25 emails of people all making fun of me before i could even explain myself. Due to this i asked to be removed from their website I did it of my own free will and appologize if I offended anyone but like I said before i couldn't even explain myself I was already under the chopping block. I dont know if i sent this to the right place but i hope it did. I know this makes me sound like the victim but I trully appologize for my actions and what I did I did not think this would cause so many problems.
 
So to all that can hear or read this I appologize for my actions and will certainly be more carefull in the future and be very percise about my actions.
 
To all verterans, currently enlisted people and those about to enlist I salute you and thank you for your service to our country.
 
Once again I am sory if I offeneded anyone or caused and termoil,dismay, or confusion.
 
Regards,

S. Scigo
Selders, Michael T Everett, WA 08/2007 Claims he flew F-5 freedom fighters, was shot down over South Vietnam and later moved to the "Hilton" where he says he was held as POW for 3 years. He states he is a graduate of the Academy, a former POW and says he obtained the rank of Major and ended his military career after 16 years and his last aircraft flown was C-5s. Claims serious injury at the hands of the enemy and has the scars to "prove it." NEVER A POW.

Served in the USAF from on active duty 11/18/69 until 8/22/78
MOS = 1053B. Discharged an O2.

From: mselders69@comcast.net
To: <info@pownetwork.org>
Subject: Apology
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:26:56 -0700

Please accept my sincerely apology for any problems my statements may have caused concerning my being a POW during the Viet Nam War – I was never a POW in Viet Nam and all of my statements to that effect are false.  I am truly sorry for any problems this has caused and I am truly ashamed of my actions.  I will NEVER make these statements again.  In the Complaint about my statements the complainant stated that  I claimed to have attended the “Academy”.  I never made this statement.  I attended the Citadel  graduating in 1969.  I never stated that I attained the Rank of Major. Also, my last assignment was flying the C5A at Dover Air Force Base which is a matter of record.

I am truly ashamed of my actions and comments and will never speak of this again.

Thank you for allowing me to apologize to all of the Brave men who spent time in captivity during the Viet Nam era.

Yours truly,

Michael T. Selders
 
Stoermer, Russell Scott - Claims most decorated soldier since Vietnam. Claims Army Ranger. Served in the Navy. DC area, political connections.

"The information gathered is honestly the “tip of the iceberg”. I, as an American, am proud of your efforts and dedication to recognize the heroic efforts and dedication of our military and also to provide information of any one that would fake or jeopardize the integrity of their efforts. I hope that your dedication and efforts will not cease in finding the persons that hold such a lack of respect toward our nation and our military...... but when some one lies such as he has here, they are completely dishonest in all areas of their lives."
From: "Russell Stoermer" 
Subject: Claims
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 03:28:51 -0400
Dear POW Network,
 
I was surprised to learn that my name was listed among those on your web site as claiming false military status as of 2004.  While I made many personal mistakes over a decade ago -- mistakes for which I am truly sorry and for which I continue to pay -- I claim today only that which is rightfully mine, which is military service in the U.S. Army from 1988 to 1991 (active) and 1991 to 1996 (inactive reserve).  I served as an armored reconnaissance scout (MOS 19DD3) with Troop A, 1st Battalion, 4th Cavalry Regiment, stationed at Panzer Kazern, Boblingen, Germany.  My basic training and AIT were both at Fort Knox, KY in 1988. 
 
I do apologize to anyone offended or hurt by any past action of mine.  These are mistakes from which I have learned and will not repeat.  However, I did serve honorably in the U.S. Army -- and not the U.S. Navy as noted in your website -- and do not claim anything beyond that.  I would like the record to reflect that I did truly serve my country, even if my years out of that service have not reflected well upon it.
 
Thank you for your consideration.
 
Russell Scott Stoermer
Streeter, Ty MI 06/2005
07/2005		 http://www.wwmt.com/engine.pl?station=wwmt&id=17063&template=breakout_local.html

Marine investigated over heroic rescue claims

June 9, 2005 - 10:51AM
(NEWS 3) - A federal investigation is underway regarding a Marine from West Michigan who claimed to have helped rescue Private Jessica Lynch.

Corporal Ty Streeter was honored as a "Hometown Hero" at a Memorial Day celebration in Union City.

In an interview with News 3, Streeter said he was awarded the prestigious Navy Cross and a Purple Heart for his role in Lynch's rescue. Officials at Streeter's former base in California say the Marine was not in Iraq at the time of Lynch's rescue. There are no records that he has received any medals.

The FBI is now investigating Streeter.

It is against the law to wear medals of valor that have not been earned.

 http://www.wwmt.com

CORPORAL TY STREETER TOLD FRIENDS AND FAMILY THAT HE WAS A WAR HERO... 
     SAYING HE WAS SHOT WHILE RESCUING JESSICA LYNCH AND WAS REWARDED WITH THE PRESTIGIOUS NAVY CROSS FOR HEROISM.
     NOW UNDER PRESSURE FROM A FEDERAL INVESTIGATION, HE ADMITS HE LIED.

     NEWS THREE'S LESLIE RANDALL HAS MORE....

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AFTER the public apology on the TV news show, a according to some people that have talked to the family recently, the story is now that "Ty had to say that he lied on the News report because the mission was top secret, and he wasn't supposed to have talked about it but did".

Sounds like the old "If I told you, then I'd have to kill you" line
08/27/2005
From: ty streeter <motuxmen@yahoo.com
Subject: ty streeter
To: info@pownetwork.org

To whom it may concern,
 
My name is Ty Streeter and I am on your website for making false accounts of my time in the service and claims about awards I did not recieve.  I have already gone on the local news station and apologized for this.  I did in fact say I did this because I was told to, not because it was a top secret mission, but because the local US Attorney thought it was the right thing to do.  I am sorry for offending anyone and it was just a story I told that got out of hand.  I thought I was capable of more and ashamed I didnt get the oppertunity to prove that.  I do think that its not right to make me out to be such a bad person and such with out at least trying to contact me.  I made a mistake.  Im only human and I'm trying to make up for it.  I did recieve an honorable discharge for the Marine Corp after five years of service.  I was in an area that at the time was considered a combat zone, even though I saw no actuall combat.  I ! can not control what others have said since I recanted my story so please dont try and make it sound like I was the one who said these things and am trying to make it sound like a cover up.  I have already recieved enough trouble over this mistake and just wish to move on with my life.  Thank you for your time and once again I'm sorry if I offended anyone. 
 
Ty Streeter

"P.O.W. Network - Chuck and Mary Schantag" <info@pownetwork.org wrote:
And this?
 Right now channel 3 news is under investigation by the government,  from what I am told,
 for even airing the story since they were warned not  to.  That could be why
 it was not on any other news broadcast on any other  station or even in the
 paper.

 Ty Streeter
That is what I was told.  I didnt make that up. And I was not the only told that.  Because the government didnt want the story aired because of safety concerns is what I heard. The area in which I live has a large arabic population and I was told that it was because they did not want(the government) the story aired because of possibly makeing targets of people.  Also please tell Chris I said hello since he is the one who sent you the email.  If you have anymore questions please let me know.
 
Ty

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Jan 31, 2008
quote

This email is regarding the story on Ty Streeter who is currently on your website. I am currently a US Marine serving overseas, I have done my research and see that Ty was not even promoted to Cpl., and was never even stationed in Iraq. Everything he claims is false and incriminating. The FBI should have nailed him to the wall for wearing all of those medals that he did not even earn along with the Rank he didn’t come close to earning; he was a fat body, shit bag of a Marine. He got out of the Marine Corps as a LCpl, only shot Marksman on the rifle Range only qualified by 2 points (lowest qualification ), was on BCP (Body Composition Program) for being out of Marine Corps Weight Standards, with a 3rd and 4th Class PFT (best being 1st Class). He only earned the Presidential Unit Citation Medal, National Defense, Armed Forces Expeditionary, Global War on Terrorism, and Good Conduct Medal, and the only reason he received most of those is b/c he was attached to a unit that received those medals in "Kuwait" notice how I didn’t mention "Iraq".

He does not live near any Arabic or Middle Eastern persons as he claims in his email on the pownetwork page, he lives in a small town in Michigan, and I would know b/c I lived in Michigan for 23 yrs and I have been to where he lives recently.

Ty Streeter is a liar through and through, and will never pay any consequences for of any of his actions. Hopefully one of these days he will get what he deserves. Don’t let him fool you, he knew willingly what he said to the press and wanted to be that "hometown hero" that every Marine that has not accomplished anything in his career wants, instead of earning the title he disgraced our Corps!! Just an update on this story.

end quote
[name withheld]

Cc: 
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 5:44 PM
Subject: I like to Apologize for stealing someone elses valor

Mary and Chuck Schantag
POW Network
Box 68 302 Walnut Street
Skidmore, Mo. 64487-0068
 
 
Dear Mary and Chuck Schantag,
 
I am Edward Milton Teagardner and I am on your website as a "phony". I was sent an email from the Chairman of the Richland County Republican Party for my removal from the Central Committeeman position I hold. After many hours of pondering this and talking to him this A.M. I have decided to apologize for my wrong doings and ask for forgiveness. I looked at you web-site section on apologies and clarifications.
I read all of the entries on this section and talked with my wife on this subject and after many many prayers I feel this is the best way to go.
 
I was assigned to the 1Bn. 8th. Artillery of the 25th Inf Div. We left Schofield Barrack for Vietnam on Dec. 25th 1965 arriving on the 4 January 1966 date. (Since I was with the 8th Artillery for the first 66 days of 1966 I was told that we were entitled to wear the Valorous Unit Award. (although I wanted to wear this award I never did*). Under my DD-214 I was awarded the Vietnam Service Metal w/2 bss, Vietnam Campaign Medal w/device (1960-) National Defense Service Medal, Marksman Badge w/rifle bar, 1 overseas bar.
 
I was in Vietnam from 4 January 1966 to 28 November 1966. At no time during this period was I ever a POW.
 
While I was in the Navy from 22 August 1968 to 1 May 1970 I was assigned to NIOTC (Naval Inshore Operational Training Center, Vallejo, California) This unit trained the (Mike boat) and (Swift boat) personal for South Vietnam Delta area.  After returning from Mississippi three other sailors and I were sent to South Vietnam for in-country training of men who were sent straight from boot camp. I believe we were there from 8 to 12 weeks. At no time was I ever a POW nor did I rescue any POW's. Nor at any time during my Naval career. Under my DD 214 I was awarded the National Defense Service Metal. At no time did I ever wear nor wanted to wear the POW Metal or any facsimile at all.
 
Again I am extremely sorry and sincerely apologize for claiming I was a POW when I was not. Nor did I ever rescue any POW's. I give all honors for those that were POW's and suffered such great pain which was dealt them by the Enemy. I am asking for the Forgiveness of this Great Nation and the Military personal who have and will serve in great honor.
 
Electronically Signed this date of 6-10-2009
Edward Teagardner (Milton)
 
 
 
* This was found on the following web page. http://www.25thida.com/units2.html#FArtillery , and in the pages of the book "The 25ths' 25th . . . in Combat" Tropical Lightning
                                        1 Oct 1941 - 1 Oct 1966
                                         25th Infantry Division.
My Name is on page 366 just above the picture of a tunnel rat looking into a hole.      
Again I do apologize for this error of my lie to those who cared for me and the families who suffered from my Lie  and those I have dishonored.
 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I just wanted to say Thank You for exposing this lying piece of crap. ... he is a disgrace to every veteran not just we Vietnam Vets--Thanks again
Thompson, John
aka Thompson, John D.		 Fort Smith, AR 05/2000
2nd report 05/2001
3rd report 08/14/01

Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:04:57 EST

"Mary Shantag, I am requesting that you and anyone else reading this, especially the respected veterans of this USA to accept my apology for my direct and/or indirect 
involvement in the portrayal of a POW, or hostage or captured. Led either by my actions or misrepresentations of others that may have compounded any postings on your site"

 Thank you.

John Thompson 
From: "Thomas J Trivisani" <ttrivisani1@verizon.net>
To: <info@pownetwork.org>
Subject: P.O.W
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:24:58 -0400

Dear Chuck and Mary Schantag
    I work in the office with xxxxxxxxxxx  and I want to appologise for claiming I was a P.O.W. It was disrespectful to all that have served.
 
Thomas J Trivisani
Vestrat, Thomas Bentley

NC

11/2004
11/2005

Claims to have been a  POW, SOG, SF, Green Beret.  Also wears a Silver Star, a loose medal on his uniform, and some ribbons.  

(He is in violation of U.S. Code  Title 18, Paragraph 702 and 704.) 

Also claims to have transferred from AF to Army after the Korea War.

Served Dec 28, 1954 to Dec 27, 1958 AND Dec 28, 1958 to Dec 8, 1964

Discharged an Airman First Class.

Decorations and Awards: Air Force Longevity Award w/1 Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster; Air Force Good Conduct (3rd); National Defense Service Medal..

Foreign Service shown as CANADA and Japan.

MOS:  207330, Radio Operator; AC&W operator; Mal Mech

==========================

12/20/2005 -   ....  he had given his uniform to Goodwill and he has confessed his lies to God. 

========================================================

Vestrat called on November 13, 2006 and apologized.

Received in writing: 
11-13-06
To Whom it may concern-

I Thomas Vestrat am a liar. I profess to be something I am not. I am so sorry for what I have done. Please forgive me, I've asked my Lord to forgive I'm sure he 
has to my fellow vet I apologize. To my country I beg forgiveness to Chuck and Mary Schantag & Mr McGrath. Keep exposing us phonies.

Yours sincerely

(signed) Tom Vestrat
1954-1964 USAF
Welborn, Thomas William

Laurel, MS

11/2005
Claims POW for 8 1/2 weeks in Vietnam, escaped.  
Claims to have been in "Special Forces"...when asked if he was a Green Beret...he said "no, just special forces"
Claims to have been in covert operations that were "secret" in nature, "off the record", etc...
 
He wears the Death before Dishonor tattoo on his outer forearm, and another medic type tattoo on the other arm.  

Claims did go to Desert Storm 

Claims his  records were destroyed in a fire, and that's why he was nowhere to be found.  

He's been married and divorced 3 times.
No record of him being  in Vietnam 

Welborn served in the USAR 04/11/66 to 6/11/96. "Active duty for training 7/18/66 to 04/19/67."

Awards and decorations: Marksman Rifle Bar; Parachutists Badge

Discharged a Private.

Also Baptist Reverend
======================================================

Thomas W. Welborn

01/25/2006 

To whom it may concern:

I have recently learned that my name is listed on your web site as claiming false military service.  I am offering my sincere apology to everyone offended or hurt by these false claims.

I did not serve in Viet Nam, and I was not a POW.  I have learned a valuable lesson from these mistakes, and I will not repeat them.

Please let the records reflect that I did serve honorably in the U.S. Army, (1966 thru 1996, 1966 thru 1972, with National Guard Ms. Then with the USAR 3/83 FA , 
the remaining of me ?30yrs with the 364th Med. Det. In Vicksburg, Ms. Where I served with Desert Storm.. 

Sincerely,

Thomas W. Welborn

Obituary listing in the Seattle Times site: WIEGAND: Richard E., 55, of Bellevue, April 6, 2006

03/12/02 - UPDATE - Weigard has left Boeing and is on a leave of absence - will not return.

Wiegard, Richard E. 
aka Dick Wiegand - Bellevue, WA 

Wiegand has been written up in the BOEING NEWS with exploits of extraordinary heroism that could not be confirmed through historical records. He claimed in Dec of 1972 he crashed landed in a B-52 
after a bombing run over Hanoi - the crash landing in GUAM!! Records indicate NO B-52 crashed on Guam until 1974. A B-52 DID crash in Thailand - much of the incident similar to the one related by 
Wiegard. Problem is the REAL co-pilot was a casualty of 9/11. 3 crewmembers died in the 1972 crash - co-pilot 1st Lt. Robert Hymel died at his Pentagon desk on 9/11.  Military records indicate 
Wiegand was only Missouri Air Guard and Illinois Air Guard - 1972 - 1993. He claims Vietnam combat and Gulf War service - medals and awards DO NOT REFLECT this service. His excuse 
now is that he has ALS... and has yet to admit to his family he has lied for years even after being confronted. Now he has to face the fact he stole a HERO's story - and now the hero is DEAD.

From: 
To: "'P.O.W. Network - Chuck and Mary Schantag'" <info@pownetwork.org
Subject: RE: Weigand
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 09:21:38 -0800

Chuck and Mary, just got off the phone with Wiegand. He admitted the story and picture are false. His service is all Guard. Nothing bad about that, but he was not a pilot, not a Vietnam veteran, and was not 
awarded the Legion of Merit, Air Medal, etc. He recanted everything and apologized to me personally. Said he has health problems that contributed. 
Steve
Yager, Frederick Albert

01/2006

Claim Air Force, Purple Heart.

Stationed in Misawa, Japan. ONLY medal is National Defense.

Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:15:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Fred Yager <fyager120249@yahoo.com
Subject: My admission
To: info@pownetwork.org
I admit to lying about my military service.  I never served in Vietnam nor did I ever receive the Purple Heart.  I started the lie some 25 years ago; for what reason I'll never know.  I wish to acknowledge this fact and apologize.  It is very painful for me now, and it should be.  It's been "baggage" I've carried around for 25 years, and actually feels good to have the truth finally see the light of day.  I am still proud however, to have served my country for four years.
 
I have admitted my lying to my friends and family. I would like to admit it and apologize on your website as well.  I wish to have the record set straight.  How do I go about it?
 
Frederick Albert Yager
AF68050579
USAF
1968-1972  

CLARIFICATION:
Young, Charles D., GA -- "Confessions of a Show Car Driver," INSIDE RACING, 1999...

February 20, 2002
To the P.O.W. NETWORK,

It was stated in a magazine article written several years ago, that I was an ex P.O.W. I did serve in Viet Nam but was never a P.O.W. or M.I.A. I apologize for the error in communication and hold the 
highest respect for the brave, unfortunate individuals who were captive P.O.W.s and M.I.A.s.

Sincerely, 

Chuck Young
ZANOTTI, ANTHONY
Claimed F-4 pilot in Vietnam, F-16 pilot in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Claimed Retired Major.

USAF E5, Munitions spec

Apologized to the entire evening bus before we exited to the Memorial Service.
========================== 

05/20/2006
E-mail from a Casbar member attending the reunion in Tucson.  Chuck and Mary Schantag make a career of busting phony pilots, seals, special forces, POWs, etc.  Pretty funny that they could bust a bus driver at the reunion.

SHADOW
 
Congrats to the Shadow and to Loadhacker.  Well deserved on both accounts.

You Had to Be There

The Schantags are here with their traveling wannabe exposure show.  On Thursday one of the buses full of Rats heading for the tour of Raytheon had a driver who began spouting off about being a Vietnam War F-4 pilot.  Now, that is like robbing a doughnut store at the cops shift change.  He was carefully drawn out, and the info given to the Schantags.  By the time the bus got back they had queried the data bases, determined that he was an E-4 or 5, CRS which, a weapons specialist, and had never been to Viet Nam, much less as a pilot.  They also determined that he was xxxxxxxxxx.  The jerk, still unaware, posed for a picture with one of the Rats, and was then advised of the truth.  He apologized, but the Schantags still reported him to the authorities.  The picture, labeling him as a phony, is posted in the hospitality room. 

Ron

 

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