I certainly haven't come across it personally. Well, to cite my own anecdotal experience, I have run into many people claiming to be Vietnam vets. Vietnam Veterans represented 9.7% of their generation. confusing and contradictory, but I think they were referring first to the 1995 this seems to be correct, I cant find anything in the census figures to 01 The Vietnam War lasted almost 20 years. Seven years later, Chuck and Mary Schantag, whose P.O.W. A raspy voice inquired: Are you all still collecting D-Day stories? How Many Vietnam Veterans Are Still Alive In 2022? - CLJ I had decided that I would Williams was said to be 117 years old at his death in 1959 in Houston, Texas. Burkett, who served as an Army lieutenant in Vietnam during the war -- he stresses he was no hero and simply did his job as an ordnance officer -- has investigated more than 2,000 cases and found that some 1,500 were frauds on either a large or a small scale. What did you do?, I was in the Army, the voice replied. I am an in-country Vietnam vet. He was driven out of the group. He was driven out of the group. REALITY: Yandle did serve in the Marine Corps but never received combat medals and was never in Vietnam. He also had claimed recon Type falsify military service into an online search engine window, and one yields tens of thousands of hits relating case after case in which someone has either exaggerated or completely fabricated their military service. U.S. 'Some are desperate. Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa was caught up in this. "Lots of people think I'm obsessed, but I'm not," he says, shortly before rushing off to the Xerox machine to make copies of a sheaf of military records. Some are just shysters,' he said. The suspicion, however, is that it has probably been around as long as people have been on the planet. The Secrets and Lies of the Vietnam War, Exposed in One Epic Document. last few years. 'One observation made in a number of cases is that the individual who is posing as a vet, in fact, does have conflicts about Vietnam war, which are being expressed in this indirect and disguised fashion,' Blank said.
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