Pledge possibly lying about military service..

[mh*e]

A girl I knew dated a guy who pretended to have cancer, and be on the verge of dying... which is sick, because her father died of cancer. Anyway, he kept up that lie pretty well for the two years they were dating. It was pretty weird finding out it wasn't true after all that time! He also spent a lot of time pretending to be super wealthy, buying her lavish gifts and whatnot, but it turned out he was actually accumulating lots of debt in her name.

Then we saw him on the news... he had a whole OTHER secret fake life where he was pretending be be a veteran from Iraq. He would wear all this military garb around, had a fake ID, and so forth. Even his mother was in on it! All their neighbors thought he was a veteran. Turned out he was just scamming people, cashing in on freebies, discounts, etc.

[als463]

Originally Posted by mh*e

A girl I knew dated a guy who pretended to have cancer, and be on the verge of dying... which is sick, because her father died of cancer. Anyway, he kept up that lie pretty well for the two years they were dating. It was pretty weird finding out it wasn't true after all that time! He also spent a lot of time pretending to be super wealthy, buying her lavish gifts and whatnot, but it turned out he was actually accumulating lots of debt in her name.

Then we saw him on the news... he had a whole OTHER secret fake life where he was pretending be be a veteran from Iraq. He would wear all this military garb around, had a fake ID, and so forth. Even his mother was in on it! All their neighbors thought he was a veteran. Turned out he was just scamming people, cashing in on freebies, discounts, etc.

That's horrible that people can so easily lie to people. It reminds me of that book where the writer just came out and said the experiences during the Holocaust never happened to her-it was made up. That's really offensive! WTF? Who LIES about the Holocaust? I hope she sleeps well at night or has no problem looking herself in the mirror the next morning because I know I never could if I did something like that!

Anyway-back on to topic. Hope he's not a liar. Good luck!

[MaggieXi]

As a child of a Vietnam War Veteran, I saw my father come across at least 1 guy who was lying about service during Nam. It turned out the one guy went as far as purchasing a purple heart from an estate auction (I still can't believe an auction would auction off a veteran's purple heart!) and had dog tags made. What made my father and other nam vets suspicious of this guy was that when they started asking questions, this guy just couldn't keep his stories straight -- one day he would say he was stationed one place, the next day some other place. Eventually the lies crumbled around him and he was outed.

I hope that this guy isn't lying. That the ROTC guys are just bitter or caught up in the rumor mill.

Have your advisor talk to someone high up in ROTC, either to see if they can help obtaining the truth or at least squash the rumor.