“To me this suggests the story is false,....”
Time and the completion of the army investigation will tell. But his mommy is still a phony.
I don’t think she is a phony, I think she was a bit of a wild child who grew up is all.
You don’t always find a person living the same life from birth till older age. She made a more conservative turn at some time in her life and seems to have been following that way of life for a long time.
Many people are different as kids.