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Originally Posted by Inflexible Six
That's about your best shot for impersonators in the 60's, hippies in fatigues and traitors in NVA air defense helmets.
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Well, it is a bit hard to prove given that there was no social media back then, but they were out there. I lived in Tucson after I got out and I met a few in bars. Being a college town with a lot of vets using their GI Bennies to go to school, I suspect that some of the impostors went to war protests to pick up chicks then, empty handed, tried to macho-up at the bars. And then there were the panhandlers claiming that they were VN vets. One guy I do remember because he had an AF fatigue shirt (with 2 stripes, whatever that is) and a 1st Cav patch on his pocket.
When I moved to L.A. in '76, they were everywhere and all of them were in combat with the infantry (that includes real vets, too). It seems that I'm the only 11B that WAS NOT in Viet Nam. I guess that they were full-up.
In the early '80s, my widowed mom was wooed by a real-life-honest-to-god O6 MOH awardee. Well, he was until I showed up for dinner one night. That was the last time she heard from him. He didn't seem to know much about the Army.
I think now, they just have a wider audience and their lies are captured, possibly, forever.
Pat