Stolen Valor

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I admit a bias here, as a professional soldier, I consider Stolen Valor absolutely reprehensible.  Public floggings or keel-hauling seems to me to be about right.  What are your thoughts?

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Corporal punisment backfires

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

I doubt that a flogging would help matters any. It might give the guy a martyr complex on top of his fraudulent conduct.

I find it fascinating that the video promotes the fear that people will suspect all vets as a consequence of these kinds of cases. It seems they should fear other aspects of reputational degradation such as being associated with theft, murder, and destruction. Those are more serious than being a suspected phony.