When I was a veteran’s career counselor at the unemployment office in the 1980’s and 90’s, I had a guy come in with a cane. He sat down and gave me a half hour long cock & bull story about being a SEAL officer in Vietnam, being captured by the North Vietnamese and shipped off to the Soviet Union. After he left, I called the Navy people in California. After they got done rolling around the floor laughing, they told me no SEAL had ever been taken POW. The next time the feather merchant came in, I asked him, point-blank “are you even a real veteran?” at which he ran away, cane and all.
I read an obituary here a few months ago. Yikes! All the lies that old guy told to his girlfriend and friends ended up in the obit. Any veteran that read it knew it was all BS. Posers really need to be careful about the stories they tell. Oh well... he’ll be missed.