Me too.
These cheap lying bastards slide their sleazy selves into the picture, trying to steal some of the glory that rightfully belongs to the boots that are there.
There are many of them.
Geraldo Rivera comes to mind...Dan Rather and his trip in support of the "mujaheddin", that blond bimbo on CNN, who is so insignificant that I can't remember her name, and many more that I either dealt with personally or knew of from other close acquaintances.
As far as I'm concerned, he's a damned liar, his credibility is shot to hell and his integrity as a journalist is in the crapper.
He should resign and fade away, become content with knowing he will always be just a footnote in the history books.
I’m with you. And, by the way, what’s the difference between what Brian Williams did and Hillary,who lied about being under fire? And, while we’re at it, why is Bill Clinton being given a pass, but Bill Cosby isn’t? Gimme an effin’ break!
If Iraq/Afghanistan War veterans are anything like Vietnam War veterans, you’ll see more and more of these “misremembering” episodes among your fellow veterans in the coming years.
I stopped attending reunions held by veterans of a unit I served with in Vietnam simply because it became too difficult for me to keep my mouth shut while they were telling “war stories” that weren’t even close to how I remembered it to have happened. I could tell by their intensity and attention to detail that they weren’t lying; they truly believed what they were saying was the truth to the point I’m sure they could have passed a polygraph.
Eventually, after several years of observing these “story tellers” at annual reunions, I think I figured out how this could have happened: In the last forty-five years, they had told this story thousands of times, and each time they told it, they changed it just one tiny bit until their memory of the incident wasn’t even remotely similar to what actually happened, but they truly believed this was exactly how it happened.
At first, I thought these flights of imagination were harmless, but when someone started collecting these stories and publishing them in books claiming to be the History of the Vietnam War, it became serious. If this is happening with the history of the Vietnam War, what does it say about the histories of all the wars going back to Thermopylae and beyond, as the histories of these wars are also “eye witness” accounts recorded many years after these wars had ended.
I have noticed when authors are given a choice between how an action actually occurred and an account of the same action that has been exaggerated, they’ll publish the exaggerated account.