[Impala64ssa]

Video at link. All the phony vet needs to do is say he THINKS he's a vet, just like the trangsgendered/transsexual/otherwise effed-up in the heads LGBTers get away with and he just might get all the VA benefits he's UNdeserving of.

[Yo-Yo]

Not that I’m defending the panhandler, but I’m a vet and I don’t have a “veteran’s ID card.” Only those who have retired have retired ID. I was in for four years and all I have is my DD214.

[Star Traveler]

He doesn’t even need to say he thinks he’s a veteran ... all he needs to do is say that he is showing his support for Veterans by dressing that way. He is exercising his free speech rights in support of Veterans. Actually, I think those free speech rights could be used that way in opposition to Veterans, too.

I would say that “dressing up” that way is going to be impossible to say “no” to doing so ... unless someone is doing something else and gaining access to services or getting a discount for something by saying and/or pretending to actually “be” a real veteran. Wearing an outfit is not going to do it, but getting financial gain from the pretense of being a veteran will be a legal problem for the guy!

[laplata]

That made my day. God bless our troops and veterans.

[longfellow]

These impersonators should be shot on site. Panhandlers too.

[GeronL]

If he was truly homeless he would probably wear whatever someone gives him. If he were telling people he was a vet when he wasn’t, that would be the problem.

[GeronL]

You can buy cammo anywhere. There is no law that says non-vets cannot wear cammo.

[Regal]

The idea that someone tries to “profit” from faking military service is disgusting, but I’m more outraged by someone who claims to have been awarded medals, or who puts military service on a resume’. Someone who is wearing a uniform, particularly an authentically homeless man is less of an offense. I live in a military city and the thrift sotres, Army/Navy and Goodwill are full of uniforms.

But, some @$$hole who thinks he can walk up to anybody and demand to see some sort of ID, is a freak.

[Polynikes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwP2vV6Wm1Y

[Terry L Smith]

Diabilities or not ... being a senior citizen or not ... I’d’ve ‘taken his name and number’!

The man wants to wear the uniform of my brothers of the cloth, then visit upon him the sin of wearing such cloth, to a manner where he will inhabit, forever, the land of fear and self-loathing, for his actions.

There is no excuse, in thought or deed, that can be afforded this man, period.

[dfwgator]

- Who's that? Who's there?

- Police! We've had complaints about con men pretending to be blind and crippled.

- I ain't seen nothing since I stepped on that landmine in Vietnam. It was very painful.

- You were in 'Nam? So were we. Where?

- I was in... Sang Bang... Dang Gong... I was all over the place, a lot of places.

- What unit?

- I was with the Green Berets, Special Unit Battalions... Commando Airborne Tactics... Specialist Tactics Unit Battalion. Yeah, it was real hush hush. I was Agent Orange, Special Agent Orange, that was me.

- Airborne, huh?


- I can see! I can see! I have...I have legs. I have... Oh ...., look at this. Legs! I can walk. Jesus, praise Jesus.I appreciate this. Oh, this is beautiful. I can't believe... Thank you.