Only in California! (Link to the LA Times' full story at bottom). 69-year-old David Weber (first picture above) of southern California was once a Marine. And so he showed up last fall at an event in Ramona, CA that celebrated the anniversary of the founding of the Marine Corps. There, he traipsed around sporting the fancy dress blues of a two-star Marine general with a gaggle of impressive battlefield medals, entertaining attendees with stories of his cloak-and-dagger intelligence missions and ascendancy to the rank of general.The only problem? Not only was Weber never a general, he wasn't even an officer! This pathetic phony balonie actually "worked for a living" during his time in the Corps, leaving the Marines in 1967 as a staff sergeant. His sham cover eventually blown, this Fraud was busted and convicted earlier this year under the Stolen Valor Act, which criminalizes the fraudulent donning of fake military medals and uniforms. But Weber escaped any time in the hoosegow, being sentenced to three years probation and 240 hours of community service.
And what precisely is his plan for filling those 240 hours? Well, doing volunteer work at a VA hospital, of course! What else? But perhaps the weirdest part of this saga is that VA hospital in La Jolla, CA actually agreed to allow this bogus buttmunch to work at the hospital as a Walmart-style "greeter."
The veterans group American Combat Veterans of War is making a lot of noise about the decision to allow this Big Fake to work at the hospital. Good for them. And wouldn't ya just love to see Clint Eastwood's Gunnery Sergeant Highway character from Heartbreak Ridge get just five minutes alone with this Weber phony? Somehow I think Weber The Fraud would have a bit tougher time with that than even Mario Van Peebles' character did (second picture above) when Gunny Highway ripped the earring right out of his ear.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/09/veterans-protest-stolen-valor-defendant-allowed-to-volunteer-at-va-hospital.html
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