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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nA few weeks a go we wrote about Richard Lee Carr<\/a>, a fellow whose mind was working pretty good when he told a reporter about his time in Vietnam which, according to him, included some time with the Viet Cong when, as a mechanic, he was shot down and captured.<\/p>\n He was able to escape, and eventually walked into a friendly military encampment. Carr said he was unsure exactly how far he traveled.<\/p>\n \u201cYou lay in by day and travel by night,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019re scared to death of booby traps, so you travel by inches instead of miles.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Of course, that turned out to not be true at all. He’d been busted by the old POW Network and since they took down their archives, he thought he could tell his tales again. Well, his local news media<\/a> found out about his lies from our own AverageNCO and now, Carr claims that his mind hasn’t been right since his stroke;<\/p>\n When contacted last week, Carr claimed he had \u201cnever talked to anybody\u201d at the POW Network.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know what is going on,\u201d he said, adding he had \u201cforgot a lot of stuff since I had my stroke.\u201d<\/p>\n Schantag confirmed that nobody from the group would have confronted Carr, but that they deal with official records and rely on public exposure of cases of stolen valor. She said Carr has apparently been embellishing his war record for some time, notably in the Branson, Missouri, area around 2007-2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n He told the story to the media while he was going on an “honor flight”. He would have qualified for the trip just because of his actual honorable service in Vietnam, but I guess he thought that he needed to fluff his story up for the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"