Duff: the real fakers are the Vietnam vets who say they were spat upon

I’m sure you remember Michael Hamilton, the fake veteran who rocketed from private to colonel in just eight years. Well, TSO sent me a link from Gordon Duff who claims he would have spotted Hamilton years ago the first time Hamilton told him that he was spat upon in an airport.

Those of us who served in Vietnam, really served in Vietnam, know that none of this ever happened. 40 years later I am still dangerous in an airport, cranky, irritable, raging PTSD and suffering from claustrophobia. I would rather be dragged behind a car, through a barbed wire fence than get on an airplane anymore.

Duff goes on to recount his experience with the VA, how they claimed his records were burned. He perpetuates the myth that he is 100% disabled…without mentioning whether his disability is related to his military service as a Battalion TOC Rat in Vietnam. His records, which weren’t burned because TAH has them, don’t mention a period in his eighteen month career when he could have identified as a casualty, since two days after he landed from Vietnam, he was out and on his way home as a civilian.

Anyway, Duff thinks that “we” tolerated Hamilton because he said what we wanted to hear. Kinda like the IVAW hires Jesse MacBeth and Rick Duncan because of their lies.

This guy, the darling of the Veterans Service Organizations, you know who we mean, the ones the VA loves so much, got his claim through, no service record book, no DD-214, no medical records, no witnesses, no real medals, no combat records, no wounds, all he had to do was say “airport spitter” a few times and they just threw the money at him.

If there is going to be an investigation by the VA Inspector General (VAOIG), it should be, not just Mike Hamilton but every person that touched his file, every person that made a phone call, applied pressure, every person who assisted an obvious phony because they liked his politics.

There is a story here, much more than we are being told. Hamilton wouldn’t have done the damage he did if he didn’t have so many willing to buy into the filth he was spewing.

Well, TSO and I can’t find out to which VSO Hamilton endeared himself. All of the VSOs I know check military records. I don’t know which one checks the spittle quotient of your war stories. It must be the VSO that exists only in the addled mind of Duff.

In his article, Duff is consistently confused about Hamilton’s records. Hamilton did spend nine months in Marines – half the time that Duff spent in the Marines before Duff became an expert on military policy. In fact, Hamilton wasn’t discharged for five years, so that gives him more time-in-service than Duff.

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