Henry Mark Holzer<\/a> was an Army veteran whose service was immediately following the Korean War after the initial portion of his college career. He went on to become a lawyer and an author. That’s how he approaches the issue – from the perspective of an academic and a lawyer. He’s careful to not name many of the phonies that he talks about in the book, which to me defeats the whole purpose of exposing phony soldiers, but, then he probably spends less time in court proceedings related to the issue than I do.<\/p>\nThe book begins with the story behind the picture on the cover of the book – a stank-ass hippie hugging the Vietnam Wall. The picture was on the Associated Press news wire in 1996. Of course, the person in the picture was not a Marine veteran of the Vietnam War as he claimed to the photographer. Although there was much wrong with the uniform that he’s wearing which would identify a phony, the fact that he tried to become the center of attention also throws up red flags. <\/p>\n
Dr. Holtzer runs through a list of reasons that people pretend to have military service, but as we’ve seen here countless times, most of the reasons revolve around bad behavior. We’ve seen phonies who beat their spouses, who default on child support, who have a history of sexual assault. We’ve seen phonies who use their service as an excuse for their crimes, at least one used his phony service to mitigate his murder conviction.<\/p>\n
I recommend Dr Holtzer’s book to those who are fairly new to the doings in the Fake Warrior community. He runs through the Supreme Court decision in US vs. Alvarez, in which the 2005 Stolen Valor Act was overturned. He also writes about the process of filing for Freedom of Information Act requests from the National Personnel Records Center. He also lists POWs of the Vietnam era in their various categories as well as the Medal of Honor recipients from Vietnam through the War on Terror, so it’s a good book to have in your library for reference and the stories that he includes are riveting, at least they were for me. As I said, I read the 342 page book in one sitting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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