B.G. Burkett is best known as the co-author of Stolen Valor. Stolen Valor is a book which is critical of what it claims are misinterpretations and distortions of Americas involvement in the Vietnam War. ...
Son of an air force colonel, he joined the US Army in June 1966. Growing up his "heroes were not sports figures like Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays but the fighter pilots who had blasted the Luftwaffe out of the sky" (Stolen Valor, page 4). Life on a military base imbued in him "an understanding that the military was the guardian of the freedoms enjoyed by the civilian population." [1] The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... Mickey Mantle on a 1953 cover of Time Magazine. ... Willie Howard Mays Jr. ... The Deutsche Luftwaffe or (German: air force, literally Air Weapon, IPA: ) is the commonly used term for the German air force. ...
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ISBN 0-9667036-0-X — Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History
Burkett is a myth-buster, a truth-teller, and a hero.
It was Burkett's first experience with the media's stubborn disregard for the truth when it conflicted with their preferred storyline.
Burkett concluded that the only thing most people would likely remember was that a "Vietnam vet" had killed 14 people, and noted the terrible irony that went largely unreported: Two of the seven men killed by Sherrill were real Vietnam veterans, one the grandson of Knute Rockne.
According to Burkett, Kerry had volunteered with the notion that his tour was going to be a sort of gentlemanly duty of offshore coast-watching not close combat with an enemy lurking on the shores.
Burkett has suggested in the past that the way out of the dilemma for Kerry would be for Kerry to open up all his files by executing a blanket SF-180 form, allowing all the press to have independent access to his file.
Burkett, however, says the release of Kerry's full file, which he does not believe has taken place despite Kerry's claims otherwise, will still not stop the Swift Boat Vets who are opposed to Kerry.
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