Saw last on news where B.G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley,c0-authors of Stolen Valor, received award for there uncovering of myths and deception on Viet Nam Vets. Will print add to this thread when news report when it goes in print. It is quite enlighting in that it releases researcg data showing Viet Vets earn more-collect fewer welfare benefits-own more homes than there same era protesting counter parts. I post data and sources when available.
NOW the INTERESTING part,how did all these myths get started. Here is just one portion of links below but if you want to see some very disburbing stuff read the links, They aren't long. You get lowdown also on several big names that flat out lied about their military backround.
Just the tip of ice berg.
"Stolen Valor is worth its price if only for its chapter exposing the Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) the left-wing group that purports to represent the men and women who served in Vietnam. The VVA?s roots trace back to the radical Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), which reliably retailed the Marxist line on most issues and railed against U.S. military and foreign policies. Robert O. Muller, one of the top VVAW activists, later formed the VVA, and with the help of Senator John Kerry (one of his VVAW comrades) obtained a federal charter for his new group.
Muller was soon raising money from the likes of Jane Fonda, Ed Asner, Bruce Springsteen, and porn peddler Bob Guccione (Penthouse). In 1981 Muller led a VVA delegation to Vietnam where he provided the Communist government with a bonanza of propaganda victories. He placed a wreath on the tomb of Ho Chi Minh and then gushed his admiration for the Communist butcher. Muller concluded his pilgrimage with an appeal for the U.S. government to shower Hanoi with foreign aid."
http://www.teamhouse.tni.net/stolnvlr.htm
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2000/08-14-2000/vo16no17_vietnam.htm
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Here is interview put in print this morning
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,104712,00.html
NOW the INTERESTING part,how did all these myths get started. Here is just one portion of links below but if you want to see some very disburbing stuff read the links, They aren't long. You get lowdown also on several big names that flat out lied about their military backround.
Just the tip of ice berg.
"Stolen Valor is worth its price if only for its chapter exposing the Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) the left-wing group that purports to represent the men and women who served in Vietnam. The VVA?s roots trace back to the radical Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), which reliably retailed the Marxist line on most issues and railed against U.S. military and foreign policies. Robert O. Muller, one of the top VVAW activists, later formed the VVA, and with the help of Senator John Kerry (one of his VVAW comrades) obtained a federal charter for his new group.
Muller was soon raising money from the likes of Jane Fonda, Ed Asner, Bruce Springsteen, and porn peddler Bob Guccione (Penthouse). In 1981 Muller led a VVA delegation to Vietnam where he provided the Communist government with a bonanza of propaganda victories. He placed a wreath on the tomb of Ho Chi Minh and then gushed his admiration for the Communist butcher. Muller concluded his pilgrimage with an appeal for the U.S. government to shower Hanoi with foreign aid."
http://www.teamhouse.tni.net/stolnvlr.htm
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2000/08-14-2000/vo16no17_vietnam.htm
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Here is interview put in print this morning
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,104712,00.html
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