03 North Vietnam sent an estimated 700,000 troops into war. what was claimed in that article is false but there was no warning about the I had something I wanted to say, but I can't continue being the enforcer of this thing around the nation. It also notes that information on total personnel abroad (Vietnam and elsewhere) was not available.Finally No. But at the dedication ceremony, despite the hundreds of "normal-looking" vets in the audience -- suits, jackets, neckties on some -- the television news teams immediately gravitated toward "the guys in fatigues and boony hats, the bearded bums. Oddly, his charitable endeavors included involvement with local Vietnam veterans groups, which ended in 1994 when he disappeared, only to resurface years later as a con man. STOLEN VALOR: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its - VHPA Frank Kaufmann provided his discharged documents which we accepted as authentic but later learned that he had forged them. 8 people who lied about their military service - WPTV "It . No, he said, but a former Ranger up in New York did. When his unit came home and started gearing up. William Weld, that Yandle was fit to be released. State Vietnam Veterans Vietnam Veterans (per 100k) Utah 42,774 1,272 How [] He has a weekly caseload of about two dozen real vets. He also had claimed recon As it turned out, my guy wasnt on the list. 87% of Americans hold Vietnam Veterans in high esteem. It was much easier to do before. ), It seems, After nearly 20 years of living thousands of miles from his family so he could claim his French army pension, the old soldier is finally being allowed to return to live in his native Senegal. 'I'm not going to say we don't care. not SEALs. I then told him what Id learned and asked, Did you lie to me?, In a voice that suddenly sounded creaky and 10 years older yet sort of childlike, as though fearing a reprimand he replied, slowly, Yes.. to 14 million had claimed to be Vietnam Veterans and subtracted the true number He also claimed the Medal of Honor. That launched the financial planner into a new career. At about 11 p.m., I remembered that local enthusiasts were reenacting the Normandy invasion on the beach at Fort Story, an Army base nearby. The event will include displays related to the Vietnam War, a jump by the Golden Knights (Army parachuting team . You can reject, out of hand, the 13 million figure and the military web sites that use it, but I have traced it to its point of origin which was a survey conducted by The Vietnam Veterans Fund and by Captain Scott Beaton so that we have a good source on it.I reject out of hand because there is no evidence to support the statistic, certainly not in the source ALWAYS given (U.S. Census). Did you get drafted, go in the military? Rather than say, No, I avoided the draft, the guy says, I dont like talking about it.Well, I was in the Army. You serve overseas? Yeah, I was in Vietnam. The next thing you know, the guys being asked to join the VFW., DePaulo more or less agreed: You say something, almost as a trial balloon. about my motives for writing this, I will note that Senator Harkin presented me that. but then remembered that if you set foot in a combat zone even for an hour or Veterans Today site also wrote, in big letters, . of those who served in Vietnam were still alive as of August, 1995 (census Heres Robert French tells us about his remembered involvement with the Roswell crash, but his military record did not support some of his claims. I did provide some information from reliable sources about the large number of fakers and all you need to do is type Stolen Valor into your search engines and you'll find name after name.Shipley's web site and other sources supports the idea that there are, literally, thousands claiming to be SEALs who were not. "Lots of people think I'm obsessed, but I'm not," he says, shortly before rushing off to the Xerox machine to make copies of a sheaf of military records. Before it was revealed, in 2001, that he spent the war teaching history at West Point, for example, Joseph Ellis was known to lecture his students at Mount Holyoke about his experiences in the vicinity of My Lai at the time of the massacre. With the Pentagon Papers revelations, the U.S. public's trust in the government was forever diminished. Kevin, the only reason I waded into this whole Stolen Valor thing to begin with was because you used this Stolen Valor statistics as justification for dismissing most Roswell witnesses, who you said you previously believed.