Blood Fake: A Stolen Valor Story

Stolen valor has likely been around since wars began. Weak, troubled people are attracted by the allure of heroism so they choose to inflate their standings within their relationships and communities at the expense of others. I am not concerned with the reasons people do this, but THAT people do this. Stolen valor is not victimless. The range of impact from such a story may be the cost of a drink given to the teller of the story in a pub to the story being told in this book which resulted i...