B.G. Burkett
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B.G. Burkett is best known as the co-author of Stolen Valor.
Son of an air force colonel, he joined the US Army in June 1966. Growing up his "heroes were not sports figures like Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays but the fighter pilots who had blasted the Luftwaffe out of the sky" ([Stolen Valor, page 4]). Life on a military base imbued in him "an understanding that the military was the guardian of the freedoms enjoyed by the civilian population." [link]
External links
- ISBN 096670360X — Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History
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