Thursday, July 29, 2010

Do We Need A Stolen Valor Act?


Should Faking Military Honors Be Illegal? -- Time Magazine

The hefty bags of soiled war laundry currently being paraded for inspection all over the Internet may have topped the military's list of woes in the past few days, but WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is not the only person giving the armed forces the collywobbles right now. There's also Richard Glen Strandlof.

When Strandlof first came to prominence, it was as Rick Duncan, a Colorado-based veterans-rights activist and local hero. A decorated Marine who was at the Pentagon on 9/11 and was later wounded in Iraq, Duncan had been a prominent fighter for homeless vets. But after months as a fixture in the media and in local-election campaigns, he was publicly unmasked in 2009 as neither a Duncan nor a veteran, but rather a small-ball crook from Montana who had done no stretches in Iraq but had served two in county jail.

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My Comment: With search engines like Google, it has become easier to flush out these impostors. Unfortunately .... it takes time and a curious person to find out the truth.

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