You'll never see the DBM media write a story about how the military suffers injury or death just training, training so they'll be ready when needed.
"Cafateria patriotism" picking and choosing what you want to support as long as it fits their cause pisses me off.
Bottom line for me is, this guy has a credibility problem. He'll have to resign. I'm not a member of the American Legion but I wouldn't stand for it if I was.
A little lie (if there is such a thing) kept Pete Dawkins from being a Senator from NJ, possibly. As I remember, his campaign brochure claimed he had two tours in Vietnam. He acually had one. The press found out and he was done.