McALLEN — A combat veteran always knows when there is another one in the same room. That’s what many Rio Grande Valley veterans have said since J.C. Ortiz, the Mission man who claimed to be a decorated combat veteran, admitted his supposedly illustrious and heroic military career in the U.S. Marine Corps was really less than honorable. “He told me about his Purple Hearts,” said Homer Gomez, an Army veteran who served in Vietnam. “The things he told me didn’t jive.” Ortiz, born Gerrald Jerome Bowman, lived a lie for at least a decade, convincing many he served four tours...