I do not understand people. What is the point, to show how man you are? HEY IM THE BIGGER MAN BECAUSE I GOT THREE AWARDS IN THE ARMY.. to bad i didnt earn them.. psh

WE USED TO CALL GUYS LIKE THAT "AAFES" SOLDIERS. I KNEW A GUY IN AIT WHO JUST BEFORE WE GRADUATED;CAME IN WEARING A UNIFORM THAT MADE HIM LOOK LIKE HE WAS AN E-4.AIRBORNE!........I RAN IN TO HIM AT FLIEGLHORST KARSERN IN ERLENSEE GERMANY. HEY PVT,SEARGENT..IF YOUR READING THIS.YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

so what ....
let the guy go - not a big deal to waste time and tax money over. Guess it was Halloween for him all year long. No harm done - no crime committed.

Yeah,Karl...so what?? If it's no big deal show up at a soldiers funeral wearing a Medal Of Honor and start blowing war stories...you know for laughs.

Those honors are reserved for the men and women of the Armed Forces that earned them, and no other. If it were any other way, they would not be honors. That is why it's illegal to wear a legitimate award when you didn't earn it. It takes a person w/ a certain amount of intestinal fortitude to earn these awards, and for someone to wear them, unearned, is a slap in the face of every hero/heroine that has earned them. I'd slap him w/ impersonating an officer as well. What a rotten, stinking leg.

Reread the article Karl. He did indeed commit a crime and he's going to do some time as a result.

I liked Rush Limbaugh's statement of these kind of people..."Phony soldiers". I guess this one will be added to the list. And Karl, he is impersonating a war hero, which he is not. Yes, harm is done for people that he's lying to.

This guy has what it takes to be a successful conservative talk show host. He would be a perfect fit with those drft dodging sunshine patriots.

Wow Karl...I guess I can walk around in a police uniform with no harm done huh?

Guys like this deserve to be in jail or whatever they decide to do with him. I EARNED every award and medal that I recieved. Likewise for the men that I served with and the few that are still serving. Its a shame that we have Marines, Soldiers, and Sailors earning a living doing the things that this guy is faking.

Too many good men and women have EARNED the right to wear their ribbons and medals through hard work and personal sacrifice. He should get the maximum sentence allowable!

My medals are in the attic. I don't really care anything about them.
We have more pressing issues in America than prosecuting this poor soul with low esteem.

It is interesting to note that he was charged with wearing medals and not impersonating a military officer, which has a much more impressive penalty. He was not a 'draft dodger' as he was injured in basic training and discharged as a result of this. As to being a 'false' war hero, more than just this person has been found guilty of this. And in this day and age we need more 'heros' and less falsehood.

This is just stupid. I bet this would be a crime under UCMJ, but this guy is a civilian. Don't civilians have right to free speech? So, a civilian can legally burn an American flag just for fun, but cannot wear an alluminum medal bought at AAFES, or hand crafted to look alike the real thing. Are we living in America, or Sparta?

Interesting that during the whole Swiftboat episode (starring John Kerry, a distinguished Navy man who earned his medals in combat) there was nary a peep from the soldiers who listen so intently to the drug abusing, drug dealing Rush Limbaugh, or who cheer two draft dodgers galore, George "Champagne" Bush and Dick "I have better things to do" Cheney every time they appear during their carefully stage managed appearances at military bases. I guess honor is a relative thing, and bears no relation to the truth, particularly when it relates to integrity, courage, honesty, or the ability to sacrifice oneself instead of asking others to lay down their lives on the line. Most curious...

By the way, there is a little button on your keyboard called the caps lock button that allows you to type your message in lowercase, as needed. Perhaps it's stuck on the locked position?

Waste of taxpayer resources to prosecute something as lame as this. I'm sure it helped him pick up chicks.

Bush is still mad because he did not think of it first..All these medals would have look impressive on his flight suit..And Laura would have been proud of her soldier...

Aside from the obvious crime of the wearing medals he did not earn, I think everyone is also forgetting that this man got a job based on these "credentials" and that it was a job that could have resulted in injury/death of others because he claimed an expertise that he did not have. This guys deserves every punshment we can throw at thim.

Hey! This is America. You can be anybody you want to be.

If someone would go to these extreme measures to feel important then something is wrong - give the guy a break. Man, it is so easy to pile on when someone is down . If you are in the military and think that "honors" is what it is all about then you missed the mark. Virtue is it's own reward - leave this guy alone.