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Stolen Valor
How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History
B.G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley

STOLEN VALOR NEWS - Now updated monthly (we hope!) (last updated August 5, 2008)

CONGRATULATIONS TO:

B.G. Burkett, Glenna Whitley and Stolen Valor for winning the William E. Colby Award for "Outstanding Military Book."
B.G. Burkett, who received the "Distinguished Civilian Service Award," the highest award the Army gives a civilian. Former President George Bush made the presentation at the Bush Library at Texas A&M. The Secretary of the Army, the 5th Army Commander and the Under Secretary of the VA came in for the ceremony.
B.G. Burkett, who was inducted into the U.S. Army Ranger Hall of Fame at Fort Benning, Georgia
B.G. Burkett and Congressman Salazar, (D-Co) who introduced the Stolen Valor Act of 2005 on Capitol Hill. The Act was inspired by and named after the book.

"A quarter-century after the choppers hoisted the last Americans off the rooftops of Saigon, journalists are still fumbling with their notebooks trying to grasp what happened. One place they should start is with "Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History," the new book by B. G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley. Hard-nosed, provocative, and courageous, "Stolen Valor" masterfully and on occasion gleefully debunks some of the popular canards and much of the anecdotal record about Vietnam veterans...For me, a reporter who is also a Vietnam veteran, "Stolen Valor" goes on the shelf somewhere near Neil Sheehan's "A Bright Shining Lie," David Halberstam's "The Best and the Brightest," and a few other books whose lasting value is that they make more comprehensible some of the epic complexities of Vietnam, which was the central cultural event of my generation."

-- Joe Sharkey, The Weekly Standard, September 7, 1998

"Stolen Valor is a tough, courageous book, overwhelmingly documenting the fraud that has been so destructive to the true legacy of those who fought in Vietnam. Its central thesis should make American mainstream media cringe in shame from their decades of negligence and collusion in this defamation of those who served with honor."

-- James Webb, author of Fields of Fire, and former Secretary of the Navy.

B.G. Burkett, a military researcher, was co-chairman of the Texas Vietnam Memorial with President George Bush as Honorary Chairman. Mr. Burkett has been the object of an award-winning segment on ABC's "20/20," as well as much acclaimed articles in Texas Monthly and Reader's Digest. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and the University of Tennessee. Burkett also served in Vietnam with the 199th Light Infantry Brigade, and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, Vietnamese Honor Medal, and Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Palm.

Glenna Whitley, an award-winning investigative reporter, specializes in writing about crime and the legal system. A graduate of Texas A&M University, her work has appeared in the Dallas Morning News, D Magazine, Texas Monthly, Redbook, as well as numerous other magazines and newspapers. Whitley currently is a freelance writer, and a former senior editor at D Magazine in Dallas, where she lives with her husband and two sons.

Vietnam service medal In the aftermath of America's debacle in Vietnam, the war was collectively forgotten. Few college courses were offered on the subject, few historians studied it, and even the military avoided the topic as an educational course for its officers.

But Vietnam never left the consciousness of America. Three decades later, it can still ignite passions among its participants.

Slowly, the war has come back to haunt us. Legions of homeless Vietnam veterans are in the street, hundreds of thousands of them are suffering from Agent Orange or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and more of them have died from suicide than died in the war....or so the social advocates and the media tell us.

B.G. Burkett, in over ten years of research in the National Archives, filing hundreds of requests for military documents under the Freedom of Information Act., uncovered a massive distortion of history, a distortion that has cost the U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars. Mr. Burkett's work has toppled national political leaders and put criminals in jail.

The authors show killers who have fooled the most astute prosecutors and gotten away with murder, phony heroes who have become the object of award-winning documentaries on national network television, and liars and fabricators who have flooded major publishing houses with false tales of heroism which have become best-selling biographies.

Not only do Burkett and Whitley show the price of the myth has been enormous for society, but they spotlight how it has severely denigrated the service, patriotism, and gallantry of the best warriors America ever produced.

STOLEN VALOR ORDERING INFORMATION
If you would like to order Stolen Valor (700 pages, 16 pages of photos), call 1-800-253-6789 (orders ONLY please*), or print out our order form and mail it and check or money order to:

Verity Press, Inc.

P.O. Box 50366

Dallas, TX 75250

Book cost is $31.95, plus $4.95 postage and handling(Texas residents add 8.25% sales tax).

Optional: Add $3 for copy of Stolen Valor signed by author B.G. Burkett.

*For media inquiries, or for inquiries to B.G. Burkett, write to Verity Press at the above P.O. Box.

Check out the June 1998 issue of D Magazine for excerpts from the book.

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