{"id":58093,"date":"2015-02-06T10:31:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T15:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58093"},"modified":"2015-02-06T10:31:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T15:31:17","slug":"stolen-valor-in-pa-spurs-legislative-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58093","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Valor in PA spurs legislative action"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regular readers here will remember how Nate Fornwalt<\/a> cheated Matthew Ott out of $2000 that Matt had raised to help veterans. Fornwalt had woven a tale about his exploits in the Marines that tugged at Matt’s heart strings, but those tales were all false. When Fornwalt wouldn’t return the money to Matt, TAH raised another $2000 for Matt. Well, Matt’s dad, John Ott, also a veteran got angry about Stolen Valor and started to influence his local legislators to write a Stolen Valor law for Pennsylvania. From CBS21<\/a>;<\/p>\n

John said he wants to push forward the state bill for every Purple Heart recipient and others who received high military honors. He says he will become the face behind this bill to make it a misdemeanor if a person misrepresents military heroics. “You need to understand and realize that if you steal valor you will not get away with it,” said John. Senate Bill 43 would make it a summary offense to wear improper insignia for the gain of profit, or a misdemeanor of the second degree for misrepresenting top military medals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The news folks tried to talk to Nate Fornwalt, but he closed the door in their faces;<\/p>\n