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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 3804106" data-attributes="member: 26737">He served recently enough that it probably doesn't apply, but there were a lot of records destroyed in a fire back in the '70s. My grandpa was drafted into the Army before Pearl Harbor and served past VJ Day, and was awarded a CIB, Purple Heart, and Bronze Star for actions in Europe, but the only record we can get from the DoD is a simple one-page sheet that lists his name, rank, and dates or service. Mike Glover told a story like this on a podcast recently. Someone called him about verifying the story of a guy who claimed to have been a special operator. Mike did some checking, and it turned out that he was a veteran, and he had been seriously injured (lost limbs, IIRC), but he hadn't ever been in special operations at all. Mike said he even talked to the guy, not telling him who he (Mike) was, and his SOF story didn't ring true.The "more to the story" part was that the guy was mentoring kids and having a positive impact on their lives. Considering what exposing the BS part of the guy's story would do to the kids, he said he didn't want to get in the middle of that, so he told the folks who'd called him to leave it alone.It sounds to me like that situation and this one have a lot in common. As long as they're not trying to claim some kind of benefit from his possible POW status, it sounds like exposing him as a fraud isn't going to accomplish anything positive, so I think I'd not kick this particular hornet nest.</blockquote>

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