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Restoring valor : one couple's mission to expose fraudulent war heroes and to protect America's military awards system / Doug Sterner and Pam Sterner ; with Michael Mink

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Titre(s)
  • Restoring valor : one couple's mission to expose fraudulent war heroes and to protect America's military awards system / Doug Sterner and Pam Sterner ; with Michael Mink
Auteur(s)
Autre(s) auteur(s)
Autre(s) responsabilité(s)
Editeur, producteur
  • New York (N.Y.) : Skyhorse publishing, cop. 2014
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (XIV-273 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
ISBN
  • 978-1-63450-279-5
  • 1-63450-279-5
EAN
  • 9781634502795 br.
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 355.130 973
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. p. [259]-262. Index
Note sur le contenu
  • A bit of colored ribbon : the history of medals Buy a medal be a hero There ought to be a law The stolen valor act It'll take an Act of Congress It's not like I killed somebody or something Going back to where I've never been Mother me, smother me, I've suffered much Putting the con on Congress Putting the con in Congress The monster in the closet What else are you lying about ? A lie too far (Xavier Alvarez) Rick Strandlof a man for all reasons The constitutional right to lie Stolen valor act 2.0 The other side of stolen valor: improperly denied heroism The final indignity Appendix 1: How to spot a phony Appendix 2 : FOIA & understanding military records Appendix 3: resources Appendix 4: The case for a valor database
Résumé ou extrait
  • Présentation de l'éditeur : "Stolen valor occurs when a person lies about receiving military decorations that he or she has in fact never earned. It has become a major societal problem : the Department of Veterans Affairs paid disability benefits to more than six hundred people falsely claiming to have been POWs in the Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars, and the number of stolen valor cases reported to the FBI has tripled in the last decade. Many imposters invade the lives of people and institutions for personal gain and often with criminal results. Sterner provides riveting case studies of the stolen valor imposters he's investigated and exposed, and the serious crimes they've committed."
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