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This problem is much worse in Korea - both North
and South.
At the end of WWII, many Koreans claimed, falsely,
to have fought the Japanese and some of these fake 'national' heroes became key
leaders.
After the Korean War, many folks have made false
claims of 'patriotic' activities. Some of those who were legit have
written up false claims of heroism as well. Last year.
I reviewed five books written by 'famous'
fighters and, without exception, they contain fictions and gross
exaggerations..
I suppose fiction and fact merge as one gets
old. BTW, I have found Chinese records to be more cold-facted than
Korean (N/S) or UN records. As Sun Tzu said 2,500 years ago, wars are won
on hard cold facts, not on wishful thinking.
Young
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Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 8:06 AM
Subject: Re: WANNABE HUNTERS
Quite a good article. We had
someone in our Special Forces and
Special Operations Assocs. who just
recently dropped out when the Assocs.
confronted him with a demand to show
some documentation to support his
SpecOps claims. Somehow he
apparently slipped through the net years back.
This guy, Jim Hawke, has
attained quite a position over the years with the
State of Nevada
government.
I'd love to
look at his initial application form for employment--see
what if any are
his claims of Vietnam service in SpecOps are--but of course
that ain't
gonna happen. Odd thing is, he worked quite hard in the SOA, even
serving on committees. Neither Assoc. has chosen to do anything with
the
fakes they expose, other than to kick them out of the organization.
The
SEALs as the article notes, are more agressiveness in presenting
these guys
with a pricetag for their affront.
The whole concept is so foreign to
me. The only thing I can figure is
that they start the lie early in
life to get ahead--or get into someone's
pants--and they just can't stop
after that. Wonder what they're thinking as
they come to the
reunions, shake hands, gain people's trust, lie to the other
members,
their wives, their children. Spooky.
Col. Mike Haas, USAF, ret.,
author
In the Devil's Shadow: UN Special Operations during the Korean
War
Apollo's Warriors: U.S. Air Force Special
Operations during the Cold War
Member: Air Commando, Special
Forces, UDT-SEAL, and Special Operations
Associations
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