Nathan Scott Fornwalt; the records

We first wrote about Nate Fornwalt back in January when Chief Shipley told about how he pretended to be a wounded veteran in order to scam a couple of thousand bucks out of a 13-year-old who was selling lemonade to help local veterans. he’s been playing the forlorn wounded veteran on the edge of a breakdown for a few year in the local media – you’ll see it if you Google his name or click the link above. Chief Shipley got an expedited FOIA from the folks at NPRC. Mary just got his DD214;

It looks like he was in Iraq with 4 bronze service stars (not to be confused with the Bronze Star Medal), but there are no Purple Hearts (he claimed he had three for wounds) and there’s no Combat Action Ribbon. He has a year and 9 months of “foreign service” and another year and a month of “sea service”. So we knew all of this before, now we have the documents.

This should also serve as a reminder that, until the first of next month, TAH is raising money to make up for what Nate stole from Matt Ott, the teen who raised the money through his own hard work and his community’s support. We’ve raised a good portion of the money, but we’re still a smidge short. You can give through Paypal at the link above (right) or you can mail your money to my home address at the “Contact Us” link in the header. I’m also tossing in a few hundred bucks that some of you gave me earlier in the month before we started this as well as all of the advertising money I got for this month.

Like I said before, Matt has already decided who the new beneficiaries will be. One is a veteran with kids, the other is his local Gold Star Mothers’ organization. I’ll be sending checks directly to them from your money – however much that turns out to be.

Category: Phony soldiers