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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nFox6 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin<\/a> tells the story of phony Marine John Hemphill<\/a> who has been playing a lieutenant with 22 years of service in the Marine Corps. He even fooled the woman who married him.<\/p>\n Hemphill has told others he’s a 22-year veteran of the United States Marine Corps who lost his leg in Afghanistan. That’s exactly what he told the woman who would become his wife.<\/p>\n “Then he said ‘all of a sudden there was a bomb,'” Sheila Hemphill recalled. “His leg, you know, blew off.”<\/p>\n Hemphill does have a prosthetic leg. It even has a U.S. Marines T-shirt laminated onto it. His left forearm is tattooed with the words “Marine Corps.” His cars have veterans license plates. His mail is often addressed to Lieutenant John Hemphill. And around his neck, you’ll almost always find a pair of dog tags.<\/p>\n “It really seemed convincing. Yes it did,” his wife said.<\/p>\n So convincing that when Sheila and John Hemphill married in 2013, she got an image of his dog tags tattooed on her right arm.<\/p>\n […]<\/p>\n Regina and her mother said they believed Hemphill was a genuine wounded warrior until a member of his own family came forward last year.<\/p>\n “She was like, ‘I gotta tell you something.’ She started crying. She’s like, ‘John was never, ever in the military,'” Sheila said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n