Additionally, the American War Library approximated that around 164,000 Americans who served at . Published Sep 24, 2018. "Pressure is Vietnam,". Although I called my alleged Ranger back, said I wanted to clear up the unit name and asked him twice to repeat it. 01 The Vietnam War lasted almost 20 years. Point prevalence of PTSD for Vietnam veterans was 9% in the 1980s and for OIF/OEF veterans was 8% (Richardson, Acierno, Frueh, 2010). So were 47 claiming to have earned service crosses. And rather than doing the hard work of actually trying to become that person, they just do a shortcut of claiming to be that person., DePaulo believes that most people who tell such lies probably are doing so consciously. Perhaps the idea that the lie about military service ultimately becomes a truth in the phony veterans mind explains what happened with my aspiring D-Day Ranger about two weeks after Id caught him lying. Marshal Hanson (and apparently quoted by every vet site as complete gospel), he provides the U.S. Census as the source, just like everybody else:www.veteranstoday.com/2009/02/26/vietnam-facts-vs-fiction/ Interesting CENSUS STATS and Been There Wanabees: a. In fact, he had been assigned as a supply clerk in a Marine brigade on Okinawa, Japan. Too good to be true! The Schantags discovered that 24 of those were false entries. The work led to 48 arrests, the VA recovered $562,888, and authorities levied $1.23 million in fines. "I said no such thing. I then told him what Id learned and asked, Did you lie to me?, In a voice that suddenly sounded creaky and 10 years older yet sort of childlike, as though fearing a reprimand he replied, slowly, Yes.. "They give me a blank look.". The point is the magazine has a political agenda. He was driven out of the group. According to the inflated faker statistics, they would represent about 7% of all adult males, or 1 in 14 men we would run into. Without If you look at the sites and read the information carefully, you will see, as I noted, that some of the information is from ACTUAL Census reports, some from the DoD and some from Beaton's survey.So, you can continue to beat the dead Census reports horse if you so desire, but I believe we (you and I) have corrected the information, we have supplied the links to the web sites and identified the source of the 13 million figure. few: http://www.uswings.com/about-us-wings/vietnam-war-facts/, http://www.military.com/forums/0,15240,84591,00.html, http://www.veteranstoday.com/2009/02/26/vietnam-facts-vs-fiction/.
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