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A good book, Stolen Valor, covered this subject. A lot of victimhood in each story.

[cbkaty]

This thief of valor donated his "purchased" medals to the Buffalo Soldiers Museum in Houston....

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Bass said he grew up poor in Houston's Fifth Ward. His parents divorced when he was 10 and he went to live with his dad. “I guess I cramped his style,” he said. “There was a lot of pressure. He dogged me out a lot: ‘You never amount to nothing, you ain't about this or you ain't about that.' ”

Bass said he enlisted in the Army and deployed to Vietnam in 1969. He returned to the U.S. a year later, pained by post-traumatic stress and disillusioned by the prejudice he says was within his unit.

The usual excuses......