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<blockquote data-quote="HoLeChit" data-source="post: 3802960" data-attributes="member: 35036">I hate to talk ill of the dead, and that is certainly not my intention, but the reality that I have found is that two things have remained constant about war in the US: The .gov can&#039;t keep records worth a crap and is spotty on reporting things, and that people are (more often than not) happy to embellish what happened, whether it be to them, a friend, or a family member.With that being said, I don&#039;t consider government record (or lack thereof) as gospel, and I take everyone&#039;s war stories with a grain of salt and a hint of skepticism, especially when they get pretty wild. I&#039;ve met about 300 Navy &quot;SEAL&#039;s&quot; in my short 34 years of living. Probably the same number of &quot;I&#039;m not allowed to talk about anything I did in the military, because everything is secret&quot;. Family members and friends are just as good at blowing things out of proportion too. You can look up military personnel records by using archive.gov.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HoLeChit, post: 3802960, member: 35036"] I hate to talk ill of the dead, and that is certainly not my intention, but the reality that I have found is that two things have remained constant about war in the US: The .gov can't keep records worth a crap and is spotty on reporting things, and that people are (more often than not) happy to embellish what happened, whether it be to them, a friend, or a family member. With that being said, I don't consider government record (or lack thereof) as gospel, and I take everyone's war stories with a grain of salt and a hint of skepticism, especially when they get pretty wild. I've met about 300 Navy "SEAL's" in my short 34 years of living. Probably the same number of "I'm not allowed to talk about anything I did in the military, because everything is secret". Family members and friends are just as good at blowing things out of proportion too. You can look up military personnel records by using archive.gov. [/QUOTE]

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