That’s terrible.
What happened to “the truth shall set ye free?” We pay a price for being truthtellers.
The Area 51 Roswell crash story began with the truth then the second day changed over to the silly “weather balloon” lie (that type of balloon was put into service for the first time over a year later).
A documentary I saw had the now grown and older little daughter of the man who is pictured holding the metal sheeting in the false news stories of the crash. She said as a little girl she clearly remembers how it was so disturbing to her to see her father crying, telling her mother he was going to have to lie or they warned him they would falsify psychiatric problems on his record and discharge him without a pension unless he lied for them. They said to find aluminum foil, even from his aunt’s freezer if need be, and bring it to say that was found at the crash site. He complied.
That is pretty much what happened to my buddy. They forced him to take a medical so that “crazy” was on his health records. Which did give him disability pay. But if he ever shared anything about it they would take the disability away.
Not until he was told he only had a few months to live did he share it with a couple of us and our wives. I was familiar with the incident, but I didn’t know he was directly there until he shared it.