More Fabricated Awards
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/29/us/politics/wes-moore-bronze-star.html
When Wes Moore ran for governor of Maryland in 2022, questions about whether he had claimed to have been awarded a Bronze Star for his Army service in Afghanistan hovered over his campaign.
For reasons that remain unexplained, two television interviewers, Gwen Ifill and Stephen Colbert, had wrongly introduced him years earlier as a recipient of the award. Mr. Moore failed to correct them, even as he and his aides insisted he had never told anyone he had a Bronze Star.
But at least once, Mr. Moore, now the state’s Democratic governor, did say he had received the award.
He made the claim on an application for a prestigious White House fellowship in 2006, when he was 27 years old, according to a copy of the document that was obtained this week by The New York Times as part of a Freedom of Information Act request.
“For my work,” he wrote, “the 82nd Airborne Division have awarded me the Bronze Star Medal and the Combat Action Badge.”
However, when Mr. Moore submitted the application in January 2006, he had not been awarded either the Bronze Star or the Combat Action Badge. He was awarded the badge in May 2006 for an episode the previous December, but there is no record showing that he ever received a Bronze Star, an Army spokeswoman said.
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The Army is pretty ticky about valor awards. If they say he ain't got it, he ain't got it.
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Speaking about being ticky...
I worked with guy that served in Vietnam, who was awarded a Silver Star.
His valorous act? He pulled a congressman out of a plane, as the field was under mortar attack.
Didn't matter that the congressman was between him and the door and he was desperately trying to get his ass out of there. The congress critter thought he had saved his life.
So, the congressman wanted him decorated. He protested to his top he hadn't done anything.
His sergeant's reply was that the general had signed his Captain's recommendation (which the general had asked for) and he was by God going to STFU and get his medal.
Tom said when they read his citation, other than the correct airplane and field, there wasn't a bit of truth in it .
But he had his Silver Star ..
