That is why John Kerry did not win a Medal of Honor he could have been sent to jail for that lie. But the other medals are OK to steal.
Stolen Valor sure changed the way I look at Medals people claim to have.
Same here. I can spot more phonies since I read the book than before, like people claiming to be POW's in Vietnam. I can just go the back of Stolen Valor and check their name against the official DOD Vietnam POW list and I never spot their names. B.G. Burkett also has published a Vietnam Medal of Honor Recepient list, a Distinguished Service Cross List, Navy Cross List and Air Force Cross List from the Vietnam War in the back of Stolen Valor
Just ask some one claiming to have served in Vietnam how Bien Hoa is pronounced!!! How they answer that can really get your suspicions up.
Stolen Valor also has a website; below is the link:
Burkett has sure busted a lot of phonies over the years. He's also taught D.A.'s throughout the country to ferret out false cases of PTSD claimed as a legal defense by defendants to get out of whatever crime they committed by showing D.A.'s how to obtain the defendents real service records (if they were even in the service to begin with). He has personally taken witness stands throughout the country to testify that defendants claiming PTSD from Vietnam were never in Vietnam to begin with or if they were there, never saw any combat, by producing the defendants real service records or showing the person was never in the service to begin with.