America's Got a Talented Liar?

I do believe that under the UCMJ (Uniformed Code of Military Justice) that if a service member misrepresents themselves as a "war Hero", they can do time in prison.

I am a REAL F*cking Iraq Vet. This story has really upset me quite a bit. I guess it was seeing the audience, mostly young kids, crying for what they thought was a true story of Valor, Survival against insurmountable odds; a real soldier's story, from near death to a promising career in music. 

POS can't even apologize honestly - he should be tarred and feathered and made to take a long walk on a short pier; let's see how he studders then.

This Jackass, Tim Poe, in my humble estimation, is a complete loser and moron. As a US Navy Veteran, I can and will say that this is not what we in the military want as an example of honor and courage at all. If anything, this piece of work is a coward who I am ashamed to even acknowledge is a fellow veteran. We who are honorable service members, past and present, take a huge amount of pride in the fact that we served with pride and dignity as well as a lot of blood, sweat and tears shed on behalf of our country. When one serves honorably and is acknowledged by his or her superiors for excellent service, which is acknowledged to all who serve with honor and distinction, then one does NOT need to lie about what they have done and accomplished. And for that matter, everything that happens, whether one is injured while on duty, or gets into trouble for anything, or performs exemplary service, it is ALL noted into our service records... our service records are then sent to a national military records keeping vault for safekeeping untill needed by us or the President or anyone else in leadership who has need of it. So Mr. Poe's saying that he cannot provide his service record for legal reasons is a lie, unless he was involved in top secret classified missions overseas or anywhere else. In that case, then he would be correct in claiming that, only he should be saying that he cannot discuss his service without clearance from the Pentagon, which, if you think about it, is a wash anyway because he went to all that trouble to fabricate his story of what happened in that combat patrol. And, ALL of this can be verified by the National Guard Unit he was attached to. So, if this guy was on the level and he was indeed injured, then there IS a record of it with both the Department of Defense and the VA Medical System. There ya have it folks. This guy needs to be booted off of America's Got Talent in a very public and televised event to at least send a crystal clear message that we as a people are not going to stand for this crap at all!

on top of all that, the photo he submitted was not even of him, but of another soldier /facepalm

http://tv.msn.com/re​ality-tv/singing-vet​-gave-americas-got-t​alent-wrong-photo-by​-mistake/story/

The entire episode is disgusting.  There are so many veterans from different wars, who have been permanently injured, who have lost limbs, been shot or saw hideous displays of torture, and suffered the rest of their lives. My ex was in Vietnam as a military advisor.  He had to do things that no human should have to do.  While he was stationed at Ft Bragg, I saw several men who tried to kill themselves because of what they saw and what they had to do, to stay alive.  Then they came home and were spit on, called 'baby killers' and on and on...everyone has heard the stories.  War is hell.  What you see in a movie can never come close to the real thing...the smell of defecation, urine, blood, infection, and seeing graphic injuries to the buddy who was standing beside you just a minute ago.  For this a**hole to lie about what happened to him is just another person spitting on our military.  He owes an apology to the men and women who have served and are serving in the military.  If his story was true, he'd have friends and buddies breaking their necks to let people know that his story was true.  To my knowledge, that has not happened.  I, too, was suspicious about his stuttering, but like everyone else, I got sucked in to the story he told. Whether he is a pathological liar or whatever he is, if I had an opportunity to say anything to him, I would say this '"what goes around comes around'. Now, put  that in your pipe or bong and smoke it.  Your life as you know it, is over. You will always be the man who spun a lie about a war he didn't serve in, and then lied about it on national tv.  But wait, it's not over.  When you die and you have to give an accounting of yourself, everyone who ever lived will hear the story of your deception and that is who you will be for eternity, 

i dont know why he lied he has a decent voice...

How dare you!!!!  That is the worst thing to do ... Especially with all the families that have lost loved ones and with all the soldiers that were actually tramatically injured over there. 

 

And what is even sadder is that you didn't even have to use the story ... you have a great voice.  And if you are not kicked off the show ... I WILL NOT EVER VOTE FOR YOU!

jack a**