We made need that "Stolen Valor" fellow over here. It is very suspicios sounding to have three sons in service and still see that mom protesting.
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Possibly they joined up to get as far away from Mom as possible?
The media just takes their word for it and doesn't investigate further.
Possibly because the media has no idea how to investigate further, such as asking for their sons' names, their jobs, units, date of deployment etc.
I wonder if this is a tactic like the callers to the talk shows use--"Up until today I was a staunch Republican"--except now it's "I have (fill in number here) sons/daughters fighting in Iraq." 'Rats will say whatever they think will make their arguments more powerful, whether it's true or not.