Posted on 11/11/2006 7:25:38 AM PST by WestTexasWend
Will do.
We owe a large debt of gratitude to B.G. Burkett, whose pioneering work in his book "Stolen Honor" first revealed the amazing extent of the fake veteran problem, and how the media was using it to further its own anti-military agenda.
Ping to post #90.
Received an e-mail from the A-J editor, Mr. Greenberg.
They're "95% certain Mr. Lee was not telling the truth" and are doing a follow-up.
Ping me w/any follow-up. (Another failure of the MSM uncovered by Freepers!)
Can't put anything past those guys...
Thanks for your followup and the heads up.
Well, some good came out of the story before I read it all and the updates..My screne got so blurry that I went out and cleaned the garage before continuing! LOL
I thank each of the contributors who exposed this phony.
Clarence Lee is a liar and poseur. Having participated in the exposure of hundreds of phony SEALs, I could tell he was lying just by the story he told.
It's a shame, because he is hurting his wife and all the people who believe him.
Thanks for the ping. What a pathetic loser this guy is, sheesh!
Good..I hate that there are poseurs who steal valor!
Please ping me to updates.
the Marines over at www.TogetherWeServed.com were on it immediately. I think they raised the red flag first :)
Regardless, POSERS should beware - they will be caught!!!
Semper Fi!
Thanks for reminding me- my membership lapsed over there. I have to renew it.
Boy howdy. In almost thirty years of doing this job I've scarcely heard a true story. In Rogers's Rangers Standing Orders (from the 18th Century!): "You can lie all you want when you tell other people about the Rangers, but don't never lie to a Ranger or an officer."
And yes, even we get snookered. We had a guy in 10th Special Forces Group, Brian Sirois, who was SF Qualified, but had to add bogus awards to his uniform. His career vector went retrograde, you might say, when he was caught. (After being thrown out, he went on to murder his wife and is in prison in Massachusetts. Character is pretty fixed in adults, and many wannabees and blowfishes display their poor character in various criminal acts). There was also a company commander in one of the Ranger Batts who had never actually bothered to, like, go to Ranger or even airborne school. No word on his fate after HE was thrown out.
I don't blame the reporters so much on this. They don't have our (meaning, vets') knowledge of what is normal and sensible, so stories that align with their TV-induced prejudices won't ring the alarm bells that some of us have.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
yes - time to re-enlist. The gang at TWS caught this about 3 days ago...when it was first published.
ooh-rah! Posers beware.
Here's a classic "feel good" Veterans Day story where the reporter made no effort to validate the claims of the guy he was profiling, and got taken for a big ride.
Just a bit too Hollywood. Rambo couldn’t have had a more unbelievable script.
Keep up the good work! ;*)
That would be me posting the poser alert there.
where was it at TWS?
I saw it here first
posted as POSER ALERT by USMCOBRA.
I just bumped it over there - it's in the OPEN Discussion
Yep, Schlatter is good on POW stuff, Chief, even if he's a flake on politics.
I worked for a Medal recipient who was a returned POW (actually, a posthumous Medal recipient! Who is still alive and well as I write this). He had severe health problems that resulted from wounds in his capture incident (his teammates saw him fall and he was carried as KIA-BNR until he was discovered alive in the prison system).
He used to bring in little shards of shrapnel that were still working their way out of him, over 10 years later. And he said that, "After the way they treated me, I don't believe there are any live POWs. If there were any in '73, they didn't live more than a couple more years."
I figured he knew, ya know?
The Carter Administration set up a hosing for those guys (on top of their amnesty for draft dodgers, deserters, and court-martial convicts). When you came back as a POW, Nixon ordered that physical requirements be waived and a job found for anybody that wanted to resume service. Many of the returnees left immediately (all of them could have had a disability retirement), but many others stayed in for their 20 or more.
But Carter's DOD ordered that, when these guys retire, they get no disability... after all, they were able to serve in the (Army/Navy/AF/Marines) no problem!
That nonsense was finally overturned in the Reagan Administration.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
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