Stolen Valor Act of 2005
Thank you Congressman Salazar!
Another entry for a revised edition of Stolen Valor that includes later conflicts:
“Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation was Robbed of its Heroes and its History.”
http://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Valor-Vietnam-Generation-History/dp/096670360X
not that Kerry’s buddies are at all repentant:
http://www.vvaw.org/veteran/article/?id=421
Perhaps someone who is knowledgeable about the material could clean up this flawed article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Valor
Meanwhile, perhaps the new law could apply to this guy, given his false claims about service in Iraq:
http://www.stolenvalor.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Valor_Act_of_2005
For example, did he ever produce a false service badge of some kind while attempting to promote his lies?
Thank you Congressman Salazar!
>>>did he ever produce a false service badge of some kind while attempting to promote his lies?
Yes.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1637146/posts?page=18#18
Re VVAW’s David Curry’s review of Jug Burkett’s book “Stolen Valor”. JB uses records at the National Archives as well as thru FOIA requests to check on a person’s claim to have served in Vietnam.
Al Hubbard, VVAW leader, was a fraud. Never served in Vietnam, never injured in a combat environment, etc. He was a veteran leftist with strong ties to international Soviet fronts, acting on behalf of VVAW at these meetings.
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), claimed to have been a Vietnam veteran but this was a lie. He never served in Vietnam and no record can be found of him even landing in Vietnam as a plane ferry pilot. He did work with Don Luce, an avowed VC supporter, to cook up the hoax of the “tiger cages” at Con Son Island. Rep. Phil Crane, in a July, 1970 article in Human Events, exposed Harkin and Luce’s fraud, with photos.
Curry is one of the hardcore VVAW leaders. If anyone knows if he is or was a member of the Revolutionary Students Brigade or its parent body, the Revolutionary Communist Party, let me know here at this article. VVAW Maoists of the RCP and splinter factions took over VVAW in late 1972-73, which is one reason why Kerry bailed on them in late 1972. He also had political deadlines to reach for nominations/races.
Re Mark Lane - debated this psycho on WKYS in Phila. in the fall 1970 when his book had just come out. He even turned off a sympathetic audience and moderator with his outrageous and unsupported claims about Vietnam. Others on this show included Prof. Ashley Montagu (a leftist from Princeton) and VVAW founder Jan Crumb (who didn’t say much).
I had a great time wiping up Lane and Montague with documents, photos, and facts. The cameraman, after the show, pulled me aside and side, “I’m a WW2 veteran. I’m on your side”. I hope he had “my good side” on camera a lot.
Even the moderator thanked me for doing a good job of debating with facts and documents. He was really steamed at Lane’s irrational and ludicrous behavior.
Oh, for the old days.