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I have no idea why people with a perfectly good life will expose themselves to such obloquy by engaging in the stolen valor game. Many vets will over time gild the lily about the details of service but Denehy served honorably in the USMC just before VN heated up. That is good enough. Why bring disgrace on yourself. A late friend engaged in this sort of thing and I had no idea he did until well after his death I examined a file of obituary and memorial items his wife provided. He was eliminated from USMC PLC in 1967 for a non correctable problem with one eye. He seems to have then concocted a completely false narrative claiming he was discharged for psycho neurotic stress after having the platoon he commanded destroyed in fighting near the DMZ during Tet 68. He was a well respected parochial school teacher and happily married. Why he put all that at risk to create a bogus wartime persona is beyond me. I thought I knew him well, I guess not.

I served in the Marine Air Detachment aboard USS Princeton (LPH-5). We were part of Operation Shufly, carrying the Marines into Vietnam. (April 1962). We qualified for Vietnam Nam Service ribbons.

I have NEVER and will NEVER consider myself a Vietnam Nam veteran. I only served during that time period.