[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Remember, the CMOH isn't won - it is awarded."

Actually, the CMH is neither won or awarded. It is received. You are a CMH recipient.

"The persons damaged by the lying are not just the people being directly lied to. It is all members of our military both active, former and retired."

While in one sense I agree with you. In the legal sense, unless your lying gives you some type of tangible gain, it is not fraud or illegal. I agree with the Seals who out these fake seals. I agree with people who out these fake "war heroes". Out them and make a public spectacle of them. Humiliate them, but don't criminalize it. Taking away our freedoms always start with something benign. Something all of us agree on. Then it moves on to something else. Like in Germany today where you can be jailed for extolling the virtues of the Nazis in public. Do we really want to send people to jail just for what they say or think? I don't want to live in a society where the thought and speech police run amok. Today it's stolen valor. Then it will move onto lying about your age to bed some hot chick. It's always a slippery slope. Don't take away citizens freedom of speech. Even if it is lying.

[The Shrew]

Actually, the CMH is neither won or awarded. It is received. You are a CMH recipient.

The Congressional Medal of Honor Society uses both the terms awarded and recipient. Awarded is perfectly correct, but the terms "won", "earned", "given" should never be applied. "Won" implies a contest. "Earned" implies a specific action will 'always' receive the award. "Given" diminishes the man, the act and the award.

My intent is not to take away freedom. It is to prevent the abuse of the nation's trust. I see your point. However, someone will always abuse a trust. There needs to be a penalty to punish the abuse of that trust.

Again, Semper Fi,

TS