Posted on 04/26/2018 12:21:23 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
ESSEX – A World War II veteran who spoke nationally about his participation in the D-Day invasion and stood with other veterans behind President Obama at the 70th anniversary in Normandy has admitted to misrepresenting his military record.
Morley Piper, 93, of Essex, said he was not a member of the 29th Infantry Division, which suffered heavy casualties as part of the first wave of the historic invasion, as he had claimed.
Piper’s fabrication was brought to light when someone contacted the New England Newspaper & Press Association, where he worked for 47 years and has an award named in his honor.
The association said in a statement that Piper, when confronted with the allegations, admitted to making up stories about serving in the invasion force. The association said it would no longer name its annual First Amendment award after Piper.
Piper, a native of Illinois, was 18 when he joined the Army. He worked in the newspaper business for more than 60 years, including 12 years at The Boston Globe and 45 as a member and eventual director of the New England Newspaper Association.
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I like how they don't point out he was a reporter until the fourth or fifth paragraph.
Dude's the father of Fake News. Or grandfather. Or great-grandather. Or, well you get the idea.
I don’t care what level he served at/in the military, so it pains me to see him tarnish his possible otherwise clean military record like that.
Makes you wonder how much he attained in life in part due to this false claim.
If he’s still alert, its too bad he has to face being revealed at this time in his life. Bad things have a nasty way of coming back to haunt you when you least expect it.
Obama and Piper...two phonies.
Which one is the BIGGER LIAR?? OBAMA.
You should hear my stories about my service as a drummer boy at Gettysburg. There I was standing right next to General Meade when....blah ....blah.
He must be a democrat...
Everything Obama touches has phony all over it.
Mediot.......................
Canadian soldier Hap Shaughnessy got the medal awarded to him by Bernard Montgomery.
It was funny on Red Green.
A gentleman who lives in my building WAS there-——still getting around quite well.
He was 17.
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If he had been ‘chairman of a local Republican party group’ - it would have been in the first sentence AND the headline...
Fake news, vintage 1944.
CC
At least he didn’t say he was “Special Agent Orange.”
He must be a democrat...
Ya think? The left will now say he is a conservative republican!
“A gentleman who lives in my building WAS there-——still getting around quite well.
He was 17.”
Virgil Mounts, a navy medic, was killed as part of the 2nd wave at Omaha beach.
He had lied about his age in order to join up.
He was 15 the day he was killed by artillery fire.
A different time.
I would have seen him on the beach...
He would have mentioned that Megaforce was escorting him.
Might as well go real.absurdity
Please explain.
And to top things off this guy did it to make Osama Obama,a guy who never even tried to *hide* his contempt for our Armed Forces,look good.
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