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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nMike and AverageNCO send us a link from our Canadian<\/a> cousins in regards to Donald Lemmond who we talked about early this year<\/a>. Lemmond spoke at a Remembrance Day activity at a Local college, telling the audience that he had served in the US Army during the Vietnam War. He wore a vast spectrum of medals including a Silver Star, a POW Medal and a Purple Heart. <\/p>\n 67-year-old Lemmond also told the audience how he had served in Afghanistan and Iraq and he had retired from the military in 2007 as a captain in the medical corps. As it turns out, he spent some time in the reserves in Canada. Initially, Lemmond said that his cousin had awarded him the medals, but now he admits that he bought them and just pinned them on because “I thought it would give me a little more authority in the job that I was performing for the legion that I was in….”<\/p>\n Lemmond also told [his lawyer, Dean] Paquette he was abandoned as a child, adopted at age five, sexually abused, a student in a Brantford residential school and patient in a psychiatric hospital when he was a teenager.<\/p>\n “So one could well understand that the role he was playing gave him a level of self-respect, perhaps a false one, but self-respect he probably never had experienced in his life.”<\/p>\n Lemmond also underwent a quadruple bypass three years ago and was scheduled for surgery to treat blood clots in his legs, Paquette said.<\/p>\n When the allegations became public, the old age pensioner received death threats, he added.<\/p>\n Justice Timothy Culver expressed sympathy for Lemmond’s rough upbringing, but said the needs and sacrifices of war veterans “really are diminished” by such false claims.<\/p>\n “You really didn’t gain anything other than some, I suppose, minor ego boost.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n They all imagine death threats. The judge sentenced him to 12 months probation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"