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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - A proliferation of phony heroes is prompting such groups as The Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation to lobby for tougher laws to punish the impostors.

The organization reports that there are 113 living recipients of the nation's highest military award, but an FBI agent who tracks the fakes said impostors outnumber the true heroes.

"There are more and more of these impostors, and they are literally stealing the valor and acts of valor of the real guys," said Agent Tom Cottone, who also works on an FBI violent crime squad in West Paterson, N.J.

Some fakers merely brag about receiving the award — and that's not illegal — but some impostors wear military uniforms and bogus medals. The FBI has about 25 pending investigations of such phony heroes, said Cottone.

Anyone convicted of fraudulently wearing the Medal of Honor faces up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine. But there's no such penalty for other medals.

The Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation and other veterans groups are looking to change that. They've enlisted the help of U.S. Rep. John T. Salazar, D-Colo., who is sponsoring the Stolen Valor Act to penalize distributors of phony medals and those who pretend to be decorated veterans.

Salazar's legislation would make it illegal to make a false public claim to be a recipient of any military valor award, such as the Medal of Honor, a Silver Star or Purple Heart.

"It is about more than punishing people," said Salazar. "It's about preserving the history and honor of those medals."

World War II Medal of Honor recipient Charles Coolidge of Signal Mountain, Tenn., got flimflammed out of his medal — at a military reunion of all places — when someone offered to help recondition it and gave him back a fake version of the award.

Cottone tracked down Coolidge's real Medal of Honor from a man who was selling and trading medals in Ohio.

"It was a big surprise to me to get it back," said Coolidge, 84.

Coolidge received the Medal of Honor for leading an outnumbered section of heavy machine guns during four days of fighting against German infantry and tanks in France in 1944.

Cottone said he recovered two fake Medals of Honor at a New Jersey gun show. Both were made by HLI Lordship Industries Inc., a former government contractor for the Medal of Honor.

The company, based in Hauppauge, N.Y., was fined $80,000 in 1996 and placed on probation after admitting 300 fakes were sold in the early 1990s for $75 each.

"If we don't maintain the integrity of these military awards, the real ones won't mean anything," Cottone said.

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Damn that's sad..

i agree. nothing like seeing our nation's highest award cheapened........

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It's actually just called the 'Medal of Honor' not 'Congressional Medal of Honor'. If someone fasely claims it they should be dragged to Iwo Jima and shot.

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It's actually just called the 'Medal of Honor' not 'Congressional Medal of Honor'. If someone fasely claims it they should be dragged to Iwo Jima and shot.

agreed. :thumbs:

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soo I can get one on ebay?? :whistle:

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I know somebody who earned a real one of them in WW2... he ran into the engine room of his ship after it had been attacked and turned off a leaking steam valve with his bare hands so that it wouldn't blow the whole ship up. (or something of that ilk - I don't remember the exact story)

I think it's scummy that people would want to steal or fake a medal... either you earned it the proper way or it's meaningless.

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soo I can get one on ebay?? :whistle:

nope. Only the Medal of Honor video game.

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies."

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I think it's scummy that people would want to steal or fake a medal... either you earned it the proper way or it's meaningless.

:angry: Agreed :thumbs:

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I know somebody who earned a real one of them in WW2... he ran into the engine room of his ship after it had been attacked and turned off a leaking steam valve with his bare hands so that it wouldn't blow the whole ship up. (or something of that ilk - I don't remember the exact story)

I think it's scummy that people would want to steal or fake a medal... either you earned it the proper way or it's meaningless.

if they don't have the intestinal fortitude to earn it, they should not lay claim to such. :angry:

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just wrong..and terrible.......

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