Decades of stolen valor

Terry Fredricks has been regaling the Farmington, NM folks with the tales of his daring-do over the Pacific and China a member of the famed “Black Sheep” squadron. The problem is that the Marine Corps never heard of him and he was too young to have served as a pilot any-damn-way;

Terry explained to us that any attempt since the theft to recover his most important records were futile because of a massive fire some years ago in St. Louis that destroyed many such documents.

We were aware of that fire from previous research over the years and knew that such a fire did occur.

However, once we further pursued Terry’s claim about his own documents, military officials told us that in that fire, records attached to the Marine Corps were not among those destroyed as they were for other branches of the service, and that most such records, though some were damaged, still exist.

That’s why I don’t trust any of these douche-bags when they tell me their records were lost in a fire. There was indeed a fire, but it has become an excuse for many of the phonies of the earlier time periods.

Perhaps most defining in researching Terry’s story: Military sources said that no Terry Fredericks, using either the service ID number he provided and/or both dates of birth he provided, ever served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II.

Damn Marine Corp keeping records like that which only serves to suppress phonies’ freedom to express themselves.

Category: Phony soldiers