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[Mary Ann Parker]

Focus your thoughts and your heart and all else will follow.
Let us continue to do honor to our wonderful warriors.
Do not focus on the "woe is me" but the "World is Proud of Me, and
FREE Because of Me""
Thanks Swiftees
Love Again
Mary Ann Parker

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"Stolen Valor is a tough, courageous book . . . Its central thesis should make American mainstream media cringe in shame from their decades of negligence and collusion in this defamation of those who served with honor."
– James Webb, author of Fields of Fire, and former Secretary of the Navy.

"Prodigiously researched and crammed with facts . . . Stolen Valor is required reading for everyone interested in historical truth rather than lie and myth. I recommend it highly."
– Guenter Lewy, author of America in Vietnam, Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts/Amherst.

"Stolen Valor, compelling and authoritative . . . Every American searching for the true history of that long war and its continuing aftermath will find it in this important work."
– Malcolm McConnell, author of Inside Hanoi's Secret Archives, Contributing editor, Reader's Digest.

"Stolen Valor is a powerful expose of cowardly phonies and an impact Veterans Administration perpetuating the myths of Agent Orange and PTSD among our soldiers."
– Mark Murphy, former Metropolitan Editor of the Los Angeles Times.

"Stolen Valor exposes more fraud than the Justice Department. Every Veteran who served honorably owes Burkett a debt of gratitude."
– Joseph L. Galloway, Co-author, We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young Senior Writer, U.S. News & World Report.

"Stolen Valor seems destined to be a milestone in American military history, perhaps in American history itself."



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The men and women of the Vietnam War deserved more than America was willing to give.

Three decades later, the war, which never left our collective consciousness, still ignites passion among its participants.

Slowly, the war has come back to haunt us. Legions of homeless Vietnam veterans are in streets, hundreds of thousands of them are suffering from Agent Orange or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and more of them have died from suicide than died in the war . . . or so the social advocates and the media tell us.

B.G. Burkett, in over ten years of research in the National Archives, filing hundreds of requests for military documents under the Freedom of Information Act, uncovered a massive distortion of history, a distortion than cost the U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars. Mr. Burkett's work has toppled national political leaders and put criminals in jail.

The authors show killers who have fooled the most astute prosecutors and gotten away with murder, phony heroes who have become the object of award-winning documentaries on national network television, and liars and fabricators who have flooded major publishing houses with false tales of heroism which have become best-selling biographies.

Not only do Burkett and Whitley show the price of the myth has become enormous for society, but they spotlight how it has severely denigrated the service, patriotism, and gallantry of the best warriors America ever produced.

[b]This book has a special section of John Kerry, his Vietnam record and his anti-war activities. The book details Kerry's false claims he threw away his war medals during anti-war protests. Burkett has become one of the most widely quoted experts on Kerry and his Vietnam experience.

B.G. Burkett, a military researcher, was co-chairman of the Texas Vietnam Memorial with President George Bush as Honorary chairman. Mr. Burkett has been the object of an award-winning segment on ABC's 20/20, as well as much acclaimed articles in Texas Monthly and Reader's Digest. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and the University of Tennessee. He served in Vietnam with the 199th Light Infantry Brigade, and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, Vietnamese Honor Medal, and Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Palm.

Glenna Whitley, an award-winning investigative reporter, specializes in writing about crime and the legal system. a graduate of Texas A&M University, her work has appeared in the Dallas Morning News, D Magazine, Texas Monthly, and Redbook, as well as numerous other magazines and newspapers. Whitley currently is senior editor at D Magazine in Dallas, where she lives with her husband and two sons.