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Fakers wear ''Medal of Honor:

by Angeline Booher May 2, 2006 5:47AM PDT

The organization reports that there are 113 living recipients of the nation's highest military award, but an FBI agent who tracks the fakes said impostors outnumber the true heroes.

Some fakers merely brag about receiving the award and that's not illegal but some impostors wear military uniforms and bogus medals. The FBI has about 25 pending investigations of such phony heroes, said Cottone.

World War II Medal of Honor recipient Charles Coolidge of Signal Mountain, Tenn., got flimflammed out of his medal at a military reunion of all places when someone offered to help recondition it and gave him back a fake version of the award.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1907188

Hope the FBI catches every single one!

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How sad ...
by Evie May 2, 2006 5:52AM PDT

... someone has to be really lower than dirt to pull that scam to steal someone's Medal of Honor like that case at the end of your excerpt. Angry

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i hope they give them a
by Mark5019 May 2, 2006 5:52AM PDT

not so fake trial

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Read about that in yesterdays
by John Robie May 2, 2006 7:15AM PDT

newspaper. What a shame. A crackdown is justified. In the military wearing a unearned ribbon results in fast disciplinary action.

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