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<\/center><\/p>\nDavid Meier is a candidate for mayor of Flint, Michigan. He decided that his resume needed some pizzazz, so he added the claim of earning a Medal of Honor, probably not knowing that’s the easiest medal to check on in the age of Al Gore’s internet, seein’s how the Congressional Medal of Honor Society maintains a searchable list <\/a>that goes all the way back to the Civil War.<\/p>\n But that didn’t deter Mr Meier, according to the East Village Magazine<\/a>;<\/p>\n Meier claimed that he received his Medal of Honor from President Richard Nixon in 1973 for actions at An Loc, Vietnam, in May of 1969. In fact, that is the story of Medal of Honor recipient Army Master Sergeant James Leroy Bondsteel of Jackson, MI. Bondsteel had been a Marine in Korea and then joined the Army, serving from 1965 to 1985. Bondsteel died in a freak traffic accident in Alaska in 1987. His Medal of Honor citation is available on numerous online sites.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So, it was time for Mr Meier to double down and go secret squirrel with his tale;<\/p>\n In a response to questions from East Village Magazine about his claims, Meier wrote that he had been a \u201cCIA soldier\u201d covertly embedded in Vietnam between 1965 and 1975, starting when he was 15 years old. He said his commanding officer would come into his home in Linden in the middle of the night, \u201cstick a needle in my arm and when I woke up I would be in Vietnam.\u201d He further stated, \u201cI usually wasn\u2019t gone very long at the beginning and my parents hardly missed me and didn\u2019t care. Many times when I came home the CIA would make me submit to electromagnetic convulsive shock therapy so I couldn\u2019t remember anything.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked about the parallels between the Bondsteel story and his own as offered to East Village Magazine, Meier sent the following explanation: \u201cSGT Bondsteel was the platoon leader of the unit that I was assigned to. I was a CIA soldier sent to assist in finding a lost platoon along with Bondsteel\u2019s platoon. Bondsteel was told where to go to link up with that platoon and sent off. After surveying the area I requested permission to recon an old overgrown trench-line because I was fearful that it was an ambush. Sure enough it was an L shaped ambush and when I entered it I encountered encountered the enemy and the rest of the story is written up in SGT Bondsteel\u2019s citation.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you replace SGT Bondsteel name with David Meier you will have the truth,\u201d Meier wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n