Stolen Valor Act
Valor Database Launched
Doug Sterner writes to tell us that DoD has launched their Valor database of award recipients. It looks like so far, they’ve only recorded the Medal of Honor recipients by service. Which sounds about right for government employees. Doug sends us his remarks to NBC; This is indeed a step in the right direction, a […]
Obama: DoD to launch Stolen Valor website
This probably could have gone with the next post down because it came from the same speech to the VFW, but it’s a different subject, so… According to the Stars & Stripes, the president announced that DoD will launch their database of awards on Wednesday. I’m sure it will be a humdinger; An administration official […]
Stolen Valor Happens on Twitter Too
I don’t really go on Twitter to find phonies at all. I just happened to see someone retweet (basically copy and republish what was said to the “twitter-uninitated”) something from a user with the name “FormerGrunt”. I thought, well.. let’s take a look at the Former Grunt. Something I noticed right off the bat is […]
John Giduck; Stolen Valor bully
A week or so ago, I was honored with a request of some folks from SOCNET for our help in assisting them in a legal battle they’re having with a stolen valor thief turned bully who happens to be a lawyer. John Giduck was discharged from the Army after a lengthy career of 58 days […]
Doug Sterner’s war against forgotten valor
Our buddy, Doug Sterner, is featured in Stars & Stripes along with his database of hundreds of thousands of records, many of which the Defense Department considers lost in the pretenders’ favorite dodge which has become the Pentagon’s favorite argument against working on their own database; Thanks to the Army’s bureaucratic redundancy, most of what […]
Thanks, Pete
Our buddy, Pete Hegseth, the Executive Director of Vets for Freedom, gave us a shout out this morning on Fox & Friends; Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Pete tried to get me on the show, but I have a face for radio. Thanks, Pete.
Stolen Valor criminal doesn’t want record expunged
Richard David McClanahan was imprisoned for 30 months partly because of his violations of the now-overturned Stolen Valor Act in Texas. Now he has the opportunity to fight to have that portion of his conviction cleared from his records, but the 34-year-old says that he doesn’t want to do that according to the Fort Worth […]
Melissa Campbell; The only casualty of US v. Alvarez
We wrote about her in August 2010 and again in March of this year but I think it’s worth it to remind some of our newer readers about Melissa Campbell, the only person to be punished in the case against Xavier Alvarez, the man who took the Stolen Valor Act to the Supreme Court. Ms. […]
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