From time time to time, I like like to check in on the sites that bust the posers. As much as these dirtbags **** me off, it's so gratifying to see them get called out and exposed. I've been browsing through some stuff for the past couple evenings, and I'm just amazed by the lies people tell. Just incredible fabrications that I can't understand how people believe, even without having served. And the way their friends and families buy into their BS. It's crazy.
Some of them have actually served in ways that they should be proud of, but they end up embellishing their careers in ways that are easily disputed, and with claims that are so outrageous that it stuns me to think that people believe their tales.
I was Army for 22 years, and it was a pretty vanilla career. GI, 1 each, OD green. Interchangeable with so many others. But I still have some great stories to tell, that don't involve heroic acts of valor. I also have some great stories to tell about my life before and after the Army, and they're just as entertaining. Everyone I know has great life stories they tell that don't involve the military.
I guess the thing that I really can't relate to is that they don't just tell lies, they tell lies that are so egregious, that it defies common sense that anyone would believe them. I know that it's probably a mental illness that causes this, but it doesn't help me understand it any better.
It's like the TV show Hoarders. Your property is nasty, clean it up! Can't you see that? Then my wife tries to explain that it's a mental dysfunction, not a logical one, but it doesn't irritate me any less knowing that.
Some of them have actually served in ways that they should be proud of, but they end up embellishing their careers in ways that are easily disputed, and with claims that are so outrageous that it stuns me to think that people believe their tales.
I was Army for 22 years, and it was a pretty vanilla career. GI, 1 each, OD green. Interchangeable with so many others. But I still have some great stories to tell, that don't involve heroic acts of valor. I also have some great stories to tell about my life before and after the Army, and they're just as entertaining. Everyone I know has great life stories they tell that don't involve the military.
I guess the thing that I really can't relate to is that they don't just tell lies, they tell lies that are so egregious, that it defies common sense that anyone would believe them. I know that it's probably a mental illness that causes this, but it doesn't help me understand it any better.
It's like the TV show Hoarders. Your property is nasty, clean it up! Can't you see that? Then my wife tries to explain that it's a mental dysfunction, not a logical one, but it doesn't irritate me any less knowing that.