AF phony Myron Brown
Our buddy, Doug Sterner, busted this old coot, Myron Brown who was a real veteran of the Korean War era, but decided he needed more recognition (Salt Lake Tribune link);
Brown said the written citations for the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star and Purple Heart came in the mail, so he ordered the medals from an online retailer and asked the congressman to formally present them to him, which [Rep. Jason] Chaffetz did at a Saratoga Springs town meeting in late June.
So, Doug had doubts about the guy and phoned Chafetz’ office. The Salt Lake Tribune says the citations are forgeries.
“The man had everything to be proud of and unfortunately he negated all that by trying to inflate his résumé. He didn’t just bump it up a little bit, he falsified that record to place himself among the 1,000 most decorated heroes of the Korean War,” said Doug Sterner, curator of the Military Times Hall of Valor, who places legitimate military honors online.
Doug tells me that these types of phonies are becoming more common recently. They forge documents and then try to legitimize their awards by convincing Congress members to award them in a public ceremony.
Category: Phony soldiers
With all the staff that a member of Congress has, you’d think that one of them could pick up the phone and call Sterner, or the National Archives, or NPRC and keep his boss from making a public fool of himself.
Doesn’t know unit. Doesn’t know anyone IN the unit or claims, “They’re all dead.” Claims he didn’t have anything to do with the citations. They just magically showed up in your mailbox and you had nothing to do with it, Myron?
Throwing the bulllshit flag high and far on that one.
That’s my congressman! I don’t have anything to add. Just wanted to point out that I live in Chaffetz’s district.
There just doesn’t seem to be any ‘deterrent’ these days for phonies and wanna be’s, that’s for sure. In fact seems like it’s getting worse or just the fact that these things are being more highlighted with the internet and all.
The best deterrent would have been Chaffetz doing the due diligence and showing up with the facts, or lack thereof, in hand and making that announcement to the press vice the medals, with Brown standing smartly at attention while the representative told the press that he was a liar.
I’m new here, but have seen several of these types of stories in just a week or so.
Why, Myron? (“Greatest generation”? I guess shameless self-aggarndizement knows no age limits.)
I have to wonder if whether one of the motives for this kind of (mis)behavior isn’t America’s near veneration of veterans (and indeed, of all things military) in countless places/ways.
Just one example.
Ja Ja I get it I caint spell very well and my sly attempts at self aggradizement have been to subtle for the other moderator to understand. But I think that I am entitled to remind a shady charachter that it was I who said almost six years ago,
F**K em if they can not take a joke. The point being I think that I have proven one more than one occasion that I can take a joke.
Been thinking.
Not saying that an 86-year-old airman couldn’t be tempted to this kind of sin just because he’s old, or from the “greatest generation,” but a Q. arises:
Is it possible that Brown has been scammed?
(I gotta say, his quote from the title page of his self-published book doesn’t make it look good for him: “Now, about 60 years later, like most old men, I find that I remember everything perfectly, whether it really happened — or not.”)
Another Q: Are there people out there who offer to fabricate authentic-looking “documentation” of military honors that people never actually received? I just can’t see Brown slaving over a hot keyboard to generate his own bogus docs …
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