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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nI guess the media is getting interested in these phony stories these days. One of our ninjas sent us an article from the Watertown Daily Times<\/a> about this fellow, William W. Roe Jr., who had lied to them back in September about his Distinguished Flying Cross. They since removed that article, but thanks to magic of the internet cache, it still exists<\/a>.<\/p>\n He claimed that he was a pilot with the CIA’s Air America and had earned a Distinguished Flying Cross for his efforts. He went off the rails with his story when he tried to join the Distinguished Flying Cross Society and get a scholarship from them for a relative. At first, the Society accepted him based on a poorly forged citation for the DSC, but then he went to the Times with his phony story and it all began to fall apart;<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m terribly embarrassed and ashamed,\u201d said Mr. Roe, who declined to discuss the documents he forged to become a member of the society. \u201cYou\u2019re about to put something in the paper that my family and friends are going to see, and there\u2019s nothing I can do. … I\u2019m 71 years old and have never done a thing like this before. It was a narcissistic thing to do. I was an Air Force intelligence guy to begin with, and there are some other things that developed from it. I\u2019m sorry for every American in the United States that this happened.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yeah, he’s ashamed and embarrassed that he was caught – not that he’s embarrassed and ashamed that he did it.<\/p>\n Mr. Roe, a resident of Newark, Del., who has a seasonal home in Sackets Harbor, might not have had his false account of how he received the DFC award exposed had he chosen to hide from the public limelight. But a group of pilots from across the country probed the 71-year-old\u2019s military background after the Times published the original story. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yeah, that’s how most of them get busted. If you could see my inbox…. <\/p>\n Captain Dumbass here also submitted a letter from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs about his “classified” records. Two things wrong here – discharges aren’t classified and the VA isn’t the repository of military discharge documents. And, oh, the address in the letterhead of that document is a cemetery.<\/p>\n Mr. Roe will escape prosecution because the DFC isn’t one of the covered awards in the Stolen Valor Act of 2013 – but it seems that the local federal prosecutor would want his ass for forging government documents, but, of course, it’s not sexy to prosecute a 71-year-old liar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"