Stolen Valor Act
Stolen Valor Act II stalled in reconciliation
Chip sends us a link to an article in the Marine Corps Times by Rick Maze which tells us that the second iteration of the Stolen Valor Act was caught in the reconciliation committee after passing in the Senate and the House; Missing from the [2013 defense policy bill] is Stolen Valor Act legislation that […]
TAH in the news
A couple of weeks ago, a young soldier wrote us tell about a former member of her unit who had appeared in the news by the name of Jannah Ebner who had spun a yarn a few years ago on her local public radio station in Milwaukee. WUWM had published Ebner’s story about how she’d […]
Shocker; DoD’s valor website incomplete
After saying for years that a website with a complete list of valor awards is impractical, the Department of Defense is proving it. Our buddy, Doug Sterner sends us a link to an article which charges that more than 60 awards of Silver Star medals are missing. Doug tells us in an email; The 62 […]
Behind the bust of Bryan H. Austin
If you remember Bryan H. Austin, a guy we featured back in July, and he’s still generating “I know this guy” stories months later in the comments at that post. Well, the guy who busted him at the Milwaukee airport and an Army Staff Sergeant sent us the story of how he busted him. Apparently, […]
New Stolen Valor Act passes House
CBS and Associated Press report that the new Stolen Valor Act has passed in the House of representatives. The House’s 410-3 vote on what is known as the Stolen Valor Act came less than three months after the Supreme Court struck down the original act on the grounds that it violated First Amendment free speech […]
9th Circuit: You can lie about earning a medal, but don’t wear it
We first wrote about David M. Perelman back in October 2009 when he was convicted of wearing a Purple Heart and convincing the Air Force that the wound in his leg that he inflicted on himself 20 years after his four-month stint in Vietnam was the result of VC shrapnel. The VA awarded him $180,000 […]
4th Circuit: Impersonating police is not free speech
Even though the Supreme Court struck down the Stolen Valor Act as a violation of the constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals says those guarantees don’t apply to folks seeking to impersonate a police officer. From the Wall Street Journal; Douglas Chappell was stopped in October 2009 by a […]
Danny Russell Crane update
Mary at POW Network writes to tell us that Danny Crane has been arrested, apparently on an indictment from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs Office of the Inspector General. I couldn’t find anything about the arrest, but I did find this news report about him by a local TV station in Florida last week and […]
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