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  • Marine Impostor – Anti-War Activist – May Not Be Charged

    09/23/2009 12:28:55 PM PDT · by Biggirl · 25 replies · 1,276+ views
    http://www.radioviceonline.com ^ | September 23, 2009 | Steve McCough
    We’ve heard about a few cases – some prominent – of anti-war protesters who claimed to be in the armed services. Today we learn one impostor, Rick Strandlof, may not be charged federally under the Stolen Valor Act.
  • Veterans' Web Sites Expose Pseudo Heroes, Phony Honors

    05/06/2005 6:32:31 AM PDT · by Cagey · 64 replies · 1,595+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | 5-6-2005 | AMY CHOZICK
    From the minute FBI Special Agent Thomas A. Cottone Jr. saw Walter K. Carlson, he suspected that something wasn't quite right about the decorated war hero. The two men met at a Washington Township, N.J., funeral service for Marine Second Lt. John Thomas Wroblewski, 25 years old, killed in Iraq in last spring. "Thousands of people were there, but when that captain walked past me wearing the Navy Cross and a chest full of medals and ribbons," Mr. Cottone says, "I whispered to my friend, something is wrong with that guy." Mr. Cottone, whose duties at the Federal Bureau of...