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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nTSO sends a link he was sent about Philadelphia Magazine who did an article “The War Within” about a Marine struggling with life after the Corps. I didn’t read the original article before they pulled it down out of embarrassment but I did find a cached copy<\/a> of the first page. I think I would have called BS as soon as I saw that the dude thinks he killed 2200 people – that would have been one person every day for over six years straight, or six people a day for a year. The math isn’t in his favor.<\/p>\n But Philly Mag published two apologies for being taken in by a friendly fellow. One from Tom McGrath<\/a> and another by the author, Anthony Gargano<\/a> about how they were taken in by a guy with a ton of stories. McGrath says that after they started getting some comments on the article, they confronted “Tree Pruner”;<\/p>\n Then, in a series of phone calls, email exchanges, and text messages, Gargano and I confronted the subject of the article, John P. Boudreau, who was also its main source. (He was identified in the story as \u201cthe Tree Pruner.\u201d) In a series of conversations on Wednesday and Thursday, Boudreau, who claims a residence in Chester County, acknowledged that much of what he had told Gargano over the preceding several months\u2014information he had also confirmed to Philadelphia magazine\u2019s fact-checker\u2014was either embellished or flat-out fabricated. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n As soon as I saw his name and read that he was claiming to be a Marine, I fired it off to some of our Marine friends who told us that there’s no record of him. It took me two minutes to get a response. You can read some of the comments in the cached copy to see what some of the claims were – he used a .40 caliber sniper rifle and TOW missiles to take out his targets, he recovered the bodies of two dead SEALs in a war that didn’t have any SEALs killed (Desert Storm). <\/p>\n They believed him because he was a nice guy and not a pest – I had this discussion last night. Most sociopaths are just like that. No one ever doubts their tales because they’re so convincing. And they think that you’ll believe them which makes them adamant about their stories and they may even believe that it’s true no matter how fantastic the story may sound. Even after they tell you that they lied initially, if they ever do, they’ll think you still believe them. After Boudreau admitted to the two writers that he lied, he sent them a text message;<\/p>\n \u201cI have been recalled to Korea next month. They need. Me to do what I do the best. If I don\u2019t come back? I love ya Cuz. Goodbye\u2026.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So, he’ll probably turn up somewhere else with his tales because he almost got away with it this time – well, until real veterans read the fairy tales. McGrath and Gargano go on and on about how they thought he was the real deal, and passed the story around to their other non-veteran family members and friends – well, without running it by any veterans.<\/p>\n I tell people that real veterans don’t mind showing their discharge certificates (DD214s), all you have to do is ask.<\/p>\n UPDATED:<\/strong> Someone sends us a .pdf of the article; Sniper Article-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"