Following the "Mission Accomplished" theme:
ABC News: Medal of Honor Fakers Are Proliferating:
"By BILL POOVEY
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Apr 30, 2006 (AP) A proliferation of phony heroes is prompting such groups as The Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation to lobby for tougher laws to punish the impostors.
The organization reports that there are 113 living recipients of the nation's highest military award, but an FBI agent who tracks the fakes said impostors outnumber the true heroes.
'There are more and more of these impostors, and they are literally stealing the valor and acts of valor of the real guys,' said Agent Tom Cottone, who also works on an FBI violent crime squad in West Paterson, N.J."
There is also a problem with people faking being POW's. Go figure.
Semi-related: Paul Harvey was just complaining about there being no (presumably Democratic) "play actors" in the war. Operation Yellow Elephant would like to know where the Republican "play actors" are, just in case any of them want a chance to become real heroes.
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