Johnny Joey Jones on Stolen Valor: It Undermines Our Veterans

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JONES: "Here’s my reaction to this. I sent this to a group text full of Marine bomb techs. If any of their ideas had come to fruition, we would be in trouble right now. But it’s not about our credit. You are not stealing our credit. My valor or the things I have done, they are on my back, everyone knows it. What you are doing is we have gone from spitting on me as I get off the plane to government programs that take in account my unique experiences going to war in the last 40 years, right? So what this does is it absolutely undermines that. We have veterans courts in this country that acknowledge and understand going through war is a specific thing and has a negative effect on you. When someone takes advantage of it, lies about it, when people are out there trying to do it to get it easier, that undermines all those men and women who really need it and eventually takes it away from them and we'll retrograde back to a place where we don’t appreciate men and women in the service."