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On: Sunday, Aug. 23 2009 05:10 AM
Killeen Daily Herald HARKER HEIGHTS – The Armed Forces E9 Association at the Charlie R. Greene Memorial Hall on Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Saturday hosted a presentation of Silver Rose medals to six local veterans who were "chemically wounded" at various times during their service. Medals are being held for two others who could not attend. The seven-year-old Order of the Silver Rose, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Mich., has awarded the medals to more than 5,000 veterans who have submitted proof of illness due to exposure to chemical agents certified by the Department of Veterans Affairs along with copies of their DD-214 discharge certificates. The organization is trying to make the qualifications sufficient for a government-issued medal, hopefully the Purple Heart..... Contact Don Bolding at dbolding@kdhnews.com or (254) 501-7557. |
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Posted on Sat, Aug. 22, 2009
Fake Civil War-era Medals of Honor recoveredBy Allyson BirdThe (Charleston) Post and Courier Five dark-suited FBI agents showed up at Patriots Point on Friday with two Civil War-era Medals of Honor. And while the agents had few details about the investigation it took to bring the medals to their new home, they didn't mince words when it came to describing the kind of people involved in the theft of the nation's highest military honor. "I can't imagine anything more despicable than taking away the honor of those people who earned those medals," said David Thomas, South Carolina special agent in charge..... |
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Apparently the US is not the only Country
with phonies.
Stolen
Valor ValourBritish Army Scum Marine Corps Community for ...
Stolen Valor ( Valour ) / "British Army Scum" Open Squad Bay. |
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http://americandaily.com/index.php/article/1938
Saturday, August 15, 2009Searching for a Hero or a FraudMilitary piece by Thomas D. Segel Harlingen, Texas, August 14, 2009: There has been a picture bouncing around the Internet far a while now. It shows a man in the uniform of a Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sergeant, impressively decked out in a wide variety of medals, including the Navy Cross, the Legion of Merit, the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, the Bronze Star, The Purple Heart, what appears to be the Joint Service Commendation Medal and the Navy Commendation Medal that I was able to identify. There may be some other awards for meritorious service in the collection, but I have been unable to id them. The man pictured is identified as a Master Gunnery Sergeant Burton. The interesting thing is…nobody knows who he is or anything about him. This is strange in itself. There are not many people in the Marine Corps holding that rank, so some Marine must know who is in the photograph. ........ |
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http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2009/08/06/56601_local-news.html'War hero' labelled fraud Accused fake: Richard Ben Serai.
A CAIRNS man who sparked a controversy about a Jewish prayer at an Anzac Day service has been accused of being a fake war veteran. Richard Ben Serai made headlines earlier this year when he accused the Cairns Regional Courncil and RSL of hypocrisy for not allowing a Jewish prayer at Anzac Day ceremonies. But now, Mr Ben Serai is being investigated by the Australian New Zealand Military Imposters group, which is shocked by the audacity of the accused imposter's alleged fraud. The group's Bill Hobson labelled Mr Ben Serai a "complete fraud" who had never served in the Australian military despite claims by the former sailor he had spent time in Vietnam in the navy..... |
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http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/aug/05/imposters-heroes/ Sun editorial: Imposters as heroesDefense Department should have easily accessible record of who actually earned medalsWednesday, Aug. 5, 2009 | 2:07 a.m. The time has come for the Defense Department to create a database that could allow information about military medals to be verified. Most veterans are honest about their service years. But cases of veterans who lie about having earned awards, and nonveterans who lie about having served valiantly, are growing. There is more of a problem with this trend than their strange desire to create false backgrounds for themselves. History can be recorded and even engraved in stone, and yet be completely wrong in cases where veterans have lived a lie. It almost happened here last year. A World War II veteran had been embellishing his military record for decades. In September the House of Representatives passed a bill that would have named a post office on Russell Road after him. After the facts of his actual record came out, the result of a newspaper inquiry, the bill died..... |
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CALIFORNIA ON BOARD WITH STATE STOLEN VALOR ACT Stolen Valor Act Assembly Bill 265 Assemblyman Cook's AB 265, also signed by the governor, pertains to the federal Stolen Valor Act of 2005. The act made it illegal for people to misrepresent themselves as recipients of military honors. The bill expands on the Stolen Valor Act and extends the forfeiture of office to state elected officials for misrepresenting themselves as recipients of the various medals and decorations for bravery, wounds, campaigns, service or rank. |
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SCAM ADVISORY - PHONY VET
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http://www.telegram.com/article/20090802/NEWS/908020693/1116/NEWSREWI=ND
[complete article here]
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Tangled web
More of McManus' stories continue to unravel
MILITARY, ENGINEERING BACKGROUND FABRICATED
.....She said she can't believe that authorities in Massachusetts and
Florida allow such a man to walk around freely masquerading as a senior
military officer conning people out of love or money as it suits him. |
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Sunday, August 02, 2009
By THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
Puebloan Doug Sterner and Mary Schantag of the POW
Network of Branson, Mo., report that two more ex-service
members who claimed to have been prisoners of war, but have no
official record of their captivity, have been exposed.
Sterner, who operates a database of military medal recipients, said that former soldiers in Oklahoma and Ohio were exposed for lying about their records. The Columbus Dispatch in Ohio reported that a former Army private said when he was in Vietnam in 1967, a North Vietnamese soldier took him prisoner. He explained how he survived for three months on dirty water and an ounce of rice a day..... Information for this story was taken from The Phoenix in Muskogee, Okla., and Columbus Dispatch in Columbus, Ohio. |
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August 2, 2009
In Ranks of Heroes, Finding the Fakes
By IAN URBINA
Last August, the Texas Department of Transportation started asking
applicants for more documentation after discovering that at least 11
of the 67 Legion of Merit license plates on the roads had been
issued to people who never earned the medal.
Last September, the House of Representatives passed a bill naming a
post office in Las Vegas after a World War II veteran who, it later
turned out, had lied when he claimed he had been awarded a Silver
Star. The legislation was rescinded.
In May, one of the most prominent veterans' advocates in Colorado
was detained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation after it was
discovered that his story about heroic service in Iraq and severe
injuries from a roadside bomb was an elaborate hoax.
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