Comments on: Stolen Valor is No Big F**king Deal

By: chrishernandezauthor

chrishernandezauthor — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 01:05:17 +0000

In reply to Nancy Bushly. I’m a combat vet, and you obviously didn’t read the article. :)

By: Nancy Bushly

Nancy Bushly — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 19:02:11 +0000

My Father landed on Omaha Beach! The Germans picking them off , like a carnival game! He survived, barely! Thanks to a Jewish Surgeon! My father was only 18 years old! He suffered the rest of his life! Only a coward, liar and punk, who has never had to fight an enemy of our country, except in his mother’s basement on his xbox would minimize “Stolen Valor”
Best Regards

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 21:19:54 +0000

Any time im mistaken for having served in the military I tell them thank you but I have never served I wish I could have but I was denied due to personal issues. I have an old Army Bdu jacket(digital camo) when I wear it some people have an issue and try to call me out on stolen valor and I tell them no im not since I never wear the name, rank, medals etc. I only ever wear the jacket with patches one American Flag and a 9/11 Memorial Patch I never take them off.

People who intentionally wear a rank on a uniform and have every medal those people have stolen valor it is also illegal to impersonate anyone in the military and show rank on a uniform if your not in the military. I follow the laws that bind our country.

We call it the Constitution but this act of deliberately impersonating a decorated service man/woman need to be put in check I can’t believe that people would willingly say they served in a war just for benefits im autistic and I didn’t fight nearly as hard as my parents to get me benefits for me.

I will never understand why people do this but I think if they want to see what hell is like to get some of those medals and ribbons throw them into the deep end of the pool and show them how hard that a life in war can be I know I will never know but do I wish I could sure to serve my country that denied me my right to serve. I do not care how I die just that it was for cause larger than myself. Hope that one day this happens guess for now I will just have to wait and see.

By: KHorn

KHorn — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 19:04:23 +0000

In reply to Roy in Nipomo. That's my experience too. My father was a WWII vet (Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart with Oak Leaf) and except when he was in the reserves and wearing his uniform unless you were a close friend or family, you'd never know he had those awards. While in quiet times on hunting trips he'd tell me the horror stories mostly he told the inevitable funny things that happened. Like the time he used the one Gaelic insult he new to get an Irish Guards private to get him a bottle of whiskey. My favorite was the time in Normandy when he and his men ambushed a command car and captured a Luftwaffe Major and his driver. The Major recognized my father as an officer and came over waving a map and screaming at him. Dad had a private who spoke German to translate and what the Major was noting was that his map had the latest intelligence and no U.S. troops were supposed to be here so they were clearly in the wrong place. Dad apologized, but politely noted he was still a prisoner

By: MACV S-2

MACV S-2 — Sat, 14 Mar 2015 01:17:01 +0000

Reminds me of the business building handyman that proclaimed to me and my two cycling buddies how his size had made him the perfect choice to be a tunnel rat. In NORTH VIETNAM! Cycling buddies were Marine NCO’s, one an E-6 EOD type, the other an E-5 Mortar Squad leader. We suggested he not re-tell that story. EVER. Found out later that he had scammed some elderly women in the nearby apartments with his tales of being “under cover” for a Federal agency and so far under they couldn’t find him to pay him, so please lend him some money. I worked for that agency and made arrangements for him to be visited by some real life 1811’s.
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