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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nAs we said the other day, the trial of Shane Ladner started on Monday. Ladner, you may remember, claimed that he was awarded a Purple Heart for wounds he sustained during drug interdiction operations in Central America in the 1990s. Our friends at Fox5 Atlanta<\/a> report that, even though Ladner won’t be testifying on his own behalf at the trial, the prosecutor played a video of Ladner during a deposition in 2015 when he sued Fox5;<\/p>\n “I woke up and there was a Purple Heart on my pillow,” he told our attorney Cynthia Counts. “I was approached by someone in a– who I assumed was a Colonel. He was in a colonel’s uniform. I was instructed on the sensitivity of our missions. I was reminded of my nondisclosure paperwork and I was told that if anyone asked I was injured in Panama.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The prosecution also brought in an FBI agent, special agent Mark Sewell, who could find no record of shrapnel wounds in Ladner’s medical records.<\/p>\n [T]he medical documents consistently showed only scars for an appendix operation at age 16 and a hernia operation at age eight. No shrapnel wound scar.<\/p>\n Chief Assistant District Attorney Rachelle Carnesale asked special agent Sewell about a February 13, 1991 visit to the clinic by Ladner.<\/p>\n “So on that day was Mr. Ladner in the hospital having his stitches checked?”<\/p>\n “No. It shows he was being treated for turning an ankle while running,” replied Sewell.<\/p>\n In fact, Ladner’s medical records produced in court describe only minor issues. During the time he was supposedly on a series of secret missions throughout 1991, he was treated for a Plexiglas window falling on his hand, a twisted ankle after stepping off a sidewalk, and a hurt nose when the door in his dorm room hit him in the face.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n