Another Medal of Honor Stolen Valor Case? Maybe not

Amster says he never knew what was on his discharge papers until he wanted to get a loan and needed it. This could be just a mistake, considering during the Vietnam War, there were many errors on records. Wrong social security numbers were typed all the time and while corrections were attempted to be made, most of them never ended up being fixed all the way through on every record in every file. The question here is, did Amster ever claim having the Medal of Honor to anyone for his own advantage? Seems really odd that it would take him until 2005 to come up with a story like this.

Man In Hot Water Over Medal Of Honor Dispute
Wednesday, July 01, 2009 8:13:07 AM

Reported By Greg Pallone

PALM BAY -- A veteran could get a year in jail and pay up to a $100,000 fine if convicted on charges of claiming to be a Congressional Medal of Honor winner.

Last week in Tampa federal court, Gary Amster, 62, was arraigned on charges he misrepresented himself as a recipient as early as September 2007 through April 2008.

The recipient of a Purple Heart, Amster served two years as an Army radio operator in Vietnam, and was hit by shrapnel and had a kidney removed after his unit was ambushed in December 1967 after pulling the four other wounded men to safety.
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