Veterans project said to contain false Medal of Honor stories

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Veterans project said to contain false Medal of Honor stories

By Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Thursday, September 20, 2007

ARLINGTON, Va. — The Veterans History Project, a multimillion-dollar collection of over 50,000 oral and written war stories from Americans sponsored by the Library of Congress, is rife with errors, exaggerations, and what appears to be outright lies, according to outside experts scrutinizing the site.

Of 49 purported Medal of Honor recipients who told their stories to the project, 24 turned out to never have been awarded the nation’s highest military decoration, according to Doug Sterner, one of the country’s foremost experts in high-level military honors.

After reviewing the project’s Web site and cross-referencing it with his own databases, Sterner said, he found at least 32 out of 100 veterans who claimed to have earned the Distinguished Service Crosses did not, and 14 out of 50 entries improperly claimed the Navy Cross.

Meanwhile, out of 144 participants who said they were Vietnam-era prisoners of war, at least 45 were not, according to Mary Schantag of POW Network, a Skidmore, Mo.-based group that exposes fraudulent POW claims.

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[Richard Steele]

1. K&R

[zbdent]

2. Wonder how many of those exposed as faking being Medal of Honor winners

were Repukes ... or gave tons of $$$ to Repukes ...