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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GerardV, post: 2971913, member: 76329&quot;]Ex-military members who are common, non-Ranger-SEAL-Green Beret, etc is nearly 100%. That makes the family history [USER=81896]@Deacon Ray[/USER] is sharing that much more meaningful. Not that our opinion should matter to his family, but his grandfather&#039;s honesty and integrity is refreshing in today&#039;s stolen valor society. </p><p><br /></p><p>The number of phony heroes out there also make it nearly impossible to believe anyone&#039;s story of heroism.&nbsp; What makes it worse is a lot wounded warrior charities don&#039;t confirm a veteran&#039;s story and don&#039;t make it public if they get swindled. So, people are never informed that someone is a fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a guy I worked with a few years back that told everyone he is an Air Force PJ and his missions are classified so no record of it will exist (Red Flag #1). He&#039;s built like a grocer, not a soldier but that isn&#039;t a fair indicator. The Green Beret who ran a training exercise for us during my time at Defense Language Institute had a physique akin to Homer Simpson.</p><p>He also claimed that on Friday he went to Rickenbacker, flew from there to Afganistan or Iraq, completed his mission and flew back. The flight time alone didn&#039;t work out (Red Flag #2). The guy would lie about whether it was raining outside while standing next to an open window (Red Flag #3).</p><p><br /></p><p>The records being classified (this along should prove someone is a phony), and considering that the chances of meeting a real Navy SEAL is about the same as meeting&nbsp; Elvis, then [USER=76194]@Sallent[/USER] had every reason to believe a tattooed, cigar smoker was a fraud. After all, the chance is that every supposed SOG warriors Are fakes.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, it still amazes me that people fall for the phony heroes out there. In some cases, Grandfathers have their wife, kids, and grandkids buffaloed into believing they were a war hero.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s why it surprises me that people are so skeptical about ancient coins. They buy into a ridiculous story that the couch potato uncle was on the team that killed Osama and then question whether a coin&nbsp; bought from a reputable anceint dealer is real.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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