Update to "The "Entitled" Veteran & the latest case of Stolen Valor, what do you think of his actions and the school's response?"

Capt Mark Strobl

To your question: "Am I simply yet a little butt-hurt." I though 'Capt' plus 'USMC' automatically equaled 'butt-hurt' so Yes, you are a little butt-hurt.

I did go back and reread the letter after your comments, and it reads like bureaucratic high brow drivel one would expect. I think our soldier made a mistake not meeting with whom ever he declined to met with, and I am willing to bet he did get loud because we get hot about these type of things but the school did need to remind him to not disturb the peace.

Thanks SPC Whitney Olson for the reply.

I think we, all people and not just military, need to act as appropriate for the situation. I am guessing this soldier allowed his outrage to get the better of him but it reads as if he started out in the right way and refrained from letting it go too far. Yes, we in the military tend to be a bit too thick skinned but much of our society, in my opinion, has become to thin skinned. I think we need to have more people stand up and calmly and quietly tell people, "You are wrong, shut up and get over yourself." Not telling you that you are wrong or to shut up. :)

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It is an institution of higher learning...so miracles do happen.

SPC Olson, what I find sad and pathetic is someone who adds her own opinion to a story, without advising the public that it was HER opinion and not fact. That is the ONLY issue I had with your post. Instead of retracting your statement, or at the very least updating it to tell the world it was your opinion of how the confrontation went down, you chose to let the world lambaste the Vet just to try and add "meat" to your argument. Then when someone calls you on it, your answer to the problem is to call them a "troll" and promptly block their comments to you. I am 48 years old, long past "trolling" age. As for the whole Stolen Valor "problem" you have a need to address. My personal opinion is this: Yeah, I am aware of what the new Stolen Valor law defines as the act of SV, that after the Alvarez case it was deemed Okay to lie, seeing that liars are covered under freedom of speech, and by the letter of the law, the liar has to be either using his claims for financial gain or personal gain, that's what the law says. Now ask a Infantry Soldier, who's 18-20 years of age, who has lost friends in that uniform, who were closer to him than most family members, who has seen firsthand the crap storm of war and combat, ask him his definition of "Stolen Valor". While I agree that, yes there are muckers out there who like to tell "fish stories" of glorious combat just to get some kind of admiration, or maybe a beer or the like, that kind of thing has went on since, well I bet there was some cat claiming to be at Valley Forge after the Revolutionary war just to get a "wench" or a "tankard of ale", but to condone these freaks out there who throw on the uniform for attention, and then try to hide under the blanket of "I'm crazy, so it's Okay" holds no water for any excuse. You may set back and say how much you love being an enlisted Nurse, but I think you have failed to realize, your not just a "nurse" you're a SOLDIER as well, and for you not to see the problem of some cat running around in uniform, wearing medals he never earned, then I suggest you take a walk thru a hospital ward that has some Soldiers who have been injured in combat, who have lost friends and brothers, ask them how they feel about it. The whole repealing and the re-write of the Stolen Valor act was not because of some "slippery slope" or "ethical dilemma", it was because of the wording that it violated the 1st amendment rights of liars, nothing more, or less, which also covers you for all the made up bits you included about SPC Lonergen....... As for your Youtube "hits' theory, I haven't seen the Vet so much on the internet after the Collage dropped it's complaint..

SPC (Verify To See) - In my opinion, you are doing just the same chasing after internet fame or Rally Point approval. Your "opinion", which you did not distinguish between the Army Times article, was taken as truth and many jumped on the bandwagon to further slander another soldiers character. For that you have my utter contempt.

SPC (Verify To See) - So now who's being the troll? I could care less about the reception of my posts on RP. I see you have issues with integrity when you label people who have a differing opinion from yours: "rank flexing RP troll" is a tell. A pointless discussion would be to discuss honor, integrity and esprit de corps with someone such as yourself. I have thick skin from being an Air Force maintainer for 20+ years and don't get "butt hurt" by frivolous drivel you post in replies. Yours has the consistency of tissue paper, IMO.