INTRODUCTION

CLAIMING VIETNAM PRISONER OF WAR:

V V A - Claims by members of  Vietnam Veterans of America

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More Reported Claims:
Medal of Honor, Other than Vietnam POWs, Son Tay Raiders, DSC, DFC, Purple Heart, Silver Star, Bronze Star, Navy Cross, SEALS, Rangers, Pilots, Special Forces, Green Berets, Combat, Vietnam Helicopter Pilots, Flying Tigers, DOUBT EVERYTHING, Don't Encourage 

APOLOGIES AND CLARIFICATIONS

Heroes or Villains?

Individuals reported as of  03/2008
CLAIMING VIETNAM POW STATUS  or as noted
#  =  on list over 11 years

All claims highlighted in lavender are eligible for prosecution under the  STOLEN VALOR ACT signed into law Dec 20, 2006.

Note: These individuals are IN ADDITION TO those investigated and named in the book STOLEN VALOR.

Those with a "LINK" have records, news articles, pictures or tales posted
Comments in GREEN are from information contained in military records (or lack of military records) obtained through FOIA when requested THROUGH the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis.

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Name                                    Location Date Reported ALL Claim POW or MIA and then some Actual Records Indicate/Notes
Ladd, Alan . # Claims POW .
Lader, William A. . # Claims POW .
LaFiet, Beau Jon

aka
A. Le Vasseur

MT 2001
12/2005
POW, helicopter pilot, CIA, millionaire

He told us all about his life in the service, CIA, and was a millionaire. He was really good at his story. He said he had 100's of acres in Montana along the Yellowstone River. He said he wrote a book and was getting it published.

 

Reported - Beau lives on the farm he works at in Corrales, NM. Beau lives at the farm in a room not much bigger than the stables
are. Looks like a mobile home cut into 3rds and he got 1/3. Certainly does not live like a millionaire - and he doesn't "own the farm." 
"LaFleur, Sidney R. . 1999 Claims POW .
LaGuerdian, Gerry CA 01/2006 Claims POW/MIA from Vietnam  GLaGuerdian565POW@aol.com  .
Lahr, Harold . 1999 Claims POW .
Laird, Robert Everett Taylor, MI 6/2001 POW/Hamburger Hill Survivor. Claims 2 Bronze Stars, DSC and 3 Purple Hearts
Claims 5th Special Forces Group and 101st Airborne Ranger 1st Lt.
VA Med Center  - Federal Police Officer
Can be located on State of MI sex offender list
NO Vietnam Service, E-4, MP, Btry B 4th Bn (HERC) 44th Arty, only awards NDSM and AFEM
Lake, James IV . 1999 Claims POW .
Lamarca, Benito Arizona 09/2003
01/2004
Claims 5th SPF, POW, escaped, 300 surgeries, went rescued other POW's and ... .
Landers,  Myron Lee Florida 09/2005
08/2006
Claims Vietnam POW,  Purple Heart, Desert Storm service. 

Professor at Manatee Community College, Bradenton, FL. and a teacher  for Manatee County Public Schools.

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Dr. Landers told our class that he was taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese during the war. He said that they tried to interrogate him but he refused to give them any information, spitting in one of the interrogator's faces at some point. He said that the interrogator pointed his gun at his head and pulled the trigger, but the weapon was empty and it didn't fire. The Vietnamese soldier allowed him to live for some reason and he was eventually freed.
 
 Dr. Landers said that he was in special forces... 
 
Dr. Landers also claimed to be a war planner during the Gulf War. He claimed to have aided in designing some kind of strategy used by coalition forces.


Actual Records

2006 reports indicate he was in 

Missouri before he came to Florida. He had $45,000 in court judgments against him between 1998 and 2000.
 
His chiropractic license in Missouri is no longer valid and he doesn't hold one in Florida; he no longer seems to hold a K-12 public school teaching certificate either (he's teaching at Manatee School for the Arts, it seems, which is a charter school and probably exempt from the state's certificate requirements).
Lang, John Frederick FL 10/2006 Claims POW in Vietnam for four years. ‘His records are sealed.’ He never failed to bring up his 'tortures' and 'horrors' he went through as a POW in every prayer meeting he attended over the years at Armor of God. He'd sit in the meeting and actually cry real tears about it.

Works for: WCA (Waste Corp of America)
Can be found at Rendezvous Lounge on Lockwood Ridge & 17th St. in Sarasota on a Friday or Saturday night.
Desperately trying to join a Veterans Group to give the appearance of truth to his lies. Tried to join the American Legion and he couldn’t. He IS attending meetings of The Brotherhood of Vietnam Veterans at the American Legion Hall on Fruitville Rd. in Sarasota, FL.
 

St. Louis could locate NO military service record.

Langdon, Donald Paul  09/2007 Donald Paul Langdon, 68

April 17, 1939 — sept. 9, 2007

NASHVILLE — Donald Paul Langdon, 68, formerly of Belleview, Florida, died Sunday morning after a long illness.

Born April 17, 1939, in Indianapolis, he was the son of the late Harry Langdon and Gayle (Stephens) Langdon, both of Bloomington.

He is preceded in death by his wife, Bertha.

.... Donald was a Navy veteran, serving three tours of duty in Vietnam before being captured as a P.O.W.

Upon his discharge from the Navy, he started a successful electronics repair business.

For the last 20 years he resided in the Belleview, Florida, area until illness compelled him to return home to Indiana to be near loved ones.

Graveside services will be held 10 a.m. Monday morning at Richardson Cemetery in eastern Monroe County.

The Bond-Mitchell Funeral Home in Nashville will make final arrangements.

NOT A POW
Lanza, Gene . 1999 Claims POW .
Laws, Daniel W
aka
Laws, Daniel J.
Lenoir, NC  -  travels to NY for powwows 07/2007
12/2007
Attended the Chambers Farms powwow where he is a member of the Black Warrior Society. Another PHONY SEAL named  Blaine Martin presented the "Buffalo Robe" to Laws at the powwow.

Laws claims MOH,  Navy SEAL, Purple Heart, a POW, once in Vietnam and once in "Beloit",  was wounded three times and still active in the military as a military advisor to Condi Rice."

At the Chambers Farms (FL) Powwow, Laws carried in the Eagle Staff.  He was referred to several times during the powwow as a MOH awardee

Uses THREE DoB, 2 middle initials and more...
4 -1948
4 -1947
1946

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POW Network,
BOTH of the men which are involved in this action are SEAL IMPOSTERS. This is yet another case of each imposter providing offering false bona fides for the other as well as making their own false claims. Both are heavily involved in the Native American POW WOW circuit, the Native American military veterans’ GOURD DANCE ceremony, and the Native American BLACK WARRIOR SOCIETY specifically for military veterans. Recommend after you review all for completeness that both men be installed on your web site as imposters with all the details. 
 
IMPOSTERS:
Blaine Martin – claiming SEAL, SEAL Instructor
Daniel Laws - claiming MOH/POW/Purple heart/ SEAL
 
Respectfully,
Steve Robinson
USN 1970-1978
SEAL Team ONE
Inshore Undersea Warfare Group ONE
UDT-SEAL Association
Special Operations Association
POW Network Advisory Board
Naval Special Warfare Archives - SOF Analyst/Contributing Journalist
Disabled American Veterans - Life Member
FORMER Special Investigator - SEAL Authentication Team
Author of the book
NO GUTS, NO GLORY - Unmasking Navy SEAL Imposters

League, Francis Butler CA 11/2003
Wears: Silver Star, Bronze Star with "V" device, P.O.W. Medal, Legion of Merit, NDSM, Vietnam Service Medal, RVN Campaign Medal. NO Good Conduct Medal, yet wears E-8 stripes. Also wears Master Parachutist's and Combat Medic's badges.

Claims Special Forces in South Vietnam as the source of most of his decorations, but he is always vague and evasive about details. 
He is still claiming to have served in Cambodia and says that "I was in Cambodia and lots of my stuff must have not been documented," whatever that means. He has secured the help of a National Service Officer to assist him is locating his true records. 

Records indicate he is authorized: Marksman Badge w/Rifle; Parachutist Badge; National defense; Vietnam Campaign; Medical Badge; Overseas Bar; Good Conduct.  Discharged as Staff Sgt. Served 1962 - 1967.  
MOS = Ward Spec/ Med Corpsman/Ambulance Orderly/Ward Spc/Med Asst

NO SF association in NAM noted

Lawson, Calvin Oxnard, Ca 05/2002 Claims Navy SEAL POW .
Lear, John Kenneth McQueeney, TX . POW/MOH, helicopter pilot no records found
Leavitt, Larry R. Jr. NH 04/2005
12/2006
Claims POW, 18 months, Navy and Air Force pilot!
Shot down by rifle fire (in the parachute) Feb. 12, 1970 over North Vietnam while flying a mission in a F-100. Also a Blue Angel.
 
CPT Larry R. Leavitt JR, US Air Force who was a POW in Vietnam in 1970 and '71.

Larry is confined to a wheelchair, claiming he was a pilot in the USAF,  shot down on Feb. 12, 1970 over North Vietnam while flying a mission in a F-100.  He says Cmdr. Paul Smith of the Navy was part of the same mission.  He says he was shot by rifle fire as he parachuted to the ground. He says he was released in a prisoner exchange after 18 mos. as a POW. He says that he had to have reconstructive surgery on his face at Walter  Reed Army Hospital in DC, because of the beatings he took. He also claims to have flown with Dick Scobie (sp) who  later became and astronaut, and was a friend to Al Page who is still listed as MIA .
Deceased 2006

NO MILITARY RECORD FOUND

EXPOSE:
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061
217/REPOSITORY/612170306

 

Leazer, Gene A.

DECEASED

04/02

 

Franklin, IA Gene Leazer
Gene Autry Leazer, 64, of Franklin, died Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at VA Medical Center in Iowa City. 
Born Sept. 29, 1937 in Birmingham, he was the son of Thurman Keith and Ada Flossie Wilson Leazer. He married Eva Pearl Warington on Aug. 18, 1975, in Dothan, Ala.
Mr. Leazer was a U.S. Air Force veteran, serving from 1956 to 1974, with the rank of captain. He received the Medal of Honor and was a Vietnam POW-MIA. 
He was a member of Salem Congregational Church, the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and AmVets. 
......
He was preceded in death by his parents and one granddaughter. 
Visitation will be from noon to 2 p.m. today at the Beatty Funeral Home in Mount   Pleasant. 
The funeral for Mr. Leazer will be at 2 p.m. today at the funeral home, with Chaplain Timon Davison officiating. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery in Fort Madison, with military rites. 
A memorial has been established.  [The Hawkeye, Burlington IA]

Records indicate Leazer was discharged as an Airman 1st Class. Actual awards were Air Force Longevity Award w/3OLC; Air Force Good Conduct w/2OLC; Air Force Outstanding Unit w/1OLC. NOTHING FURTHER. He was a Fire Protection Specialist for A1C's.

Lee, Clarence Shallowater, TX
Houston TX
11/2006

SO MUCH MORE

E5 LEE CLARENCE served in Vietnam with an MOS of 3531 Motor Vehicle Operator.
Lee, Kenneth
Huachua, AZ 02/2002
06/2002
11/2002
Claims POW ... when the North Vietnamese did an officer exchange he just followed the officer out; said that he didn't care if they shot him in the back, he couldn't take anymore.... escaped. Used to rice and fishheads in captivity.
Claims 5 tours in Vietnam - how long he was in the military?? He says 5 Yrs. 
When called, Lee declared, I don't like to talk about that {his captivity}. Sadly, he allows his  wife Judy to repeat his fairy tales in public, unaware she is perpetuating the fraud and deception he maintains.
Lee, Kenneth E. Lee

deceased 2003

CA 09/2003 Claims in 1964, as part of group of Air Force personnel sent to Cambodia, that they were all captured by the Vietcong . He and the only other survivor of that group were rescued by Hmong tribesman 4 months later, but due to the the "classified" nature of their mission, his capture and subsequent release was never a matter of record. 
Claimed Service Dates: 1/17/1963 - 3/8/1967
Lemon, Robert . 1999 Claims POW .
Leonard, Dennis Columbus, OH 08/01
05/2005
Claims Special Forces, POW held for 2 yrs. Finger and toenails removed in torture. Car Salesman for Saturn SW.
2005 - still telling stories of capture detention of over two years finger nails toe nails removed --dramatic- rescue. 
Did not show up for work day after being questioned about NOT being on PMSEA.

As of 5/02/05 works Dave Fox Remodeling, Columbus, Ohio.

Leonard, Donald R.  "Butch" 09/2007 OH
Claims to be a POW of the Vietnam War, having spent 18 Months in a Steel Cage, being tortured in "unspeakable ways", he claims to be part of Navy Special Forces, but when asked if he was SEAL, he always answers, "No, one of the other ones...." without specifying what Special Force he was a member of.
 
He uses his "status "as a Vietnam Vet/POW to pick arguments and confrontations with people and threatens people with physical harm if they say or do anything to disgrace POW's/Vets or the great country of USA.
 
Also Claims to be Cherokee Indian and that he grew up on a Reservation, something no one has been able to confirm, He is very active on the Powwow curcuit and seem to have a group of followers that looks up to him because of his alleged history.
 
He also claims to have gotten away with a murder in a barfight because of his status as a war hero. He claims he was acquitted of all charges because he was a war hero, even though nobody seems to have a recollection of a barfight ending up with anybody dead in the time period Mr. Leonard specifies.
 
Mr.Leonard seems to build his entire life around his POW story and talks about it continuously and EVERY chance he gets.
No records found

NOT a POW by any name.

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No man by the name of Donald Leonard was ever with any one of us, the 661 surviving POWs of the Vietnam War, nor is he known by Department of
Defense in this regard.  The real POW/MIAs are all listed in the official Department of Defense web site: 
 
http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/pmsea/files.htm
 
Sincerely,
Mike McGrath, Captain USN (Ret)
NAM-POWs Historian
www.nampows.org
Lesniewski, Michael . 07/99 Claims POW, grad of Fordham U (Fordham U denies) .
Levy, David  Las Vegas, NV . POW/Army medic, VA pension .
Lewis, Charles Francis Lloyd . . records indicate NO foreign service nor POW  captivity. LESS THAN 30 days active duty. GENERAL DISCHARGE first from Guard - willful absence then "not meeting medical fitness" honorable out of  active.
Lewis, Dan . 1999 Claims POW .
Lewis, Dave . . Claims POW and Purple Heart, Special Forces. Thrown out of American Ex-POWs early 1990's!
Light, J. Thomas 
aka Light, James Thomas
chat rooms
Florida
07/2002
09/2002
12/2002
Claims 1967 USNA grad, POW in 1969,  F-4 pilot

Claims POW May 70 - July 73. Navy Commander, Fighter Squadron Fourteen service from 1969 - 1982. Grad of UNC-Chapel Hill 1973!

NOT a POW nor USNA alum

RECORDS HIS website and HIS email

LINGENFELTER, GERALD D

aka LIGENFELTER GERALD   aka LINGENFELTER GERALD DUANE  aka LINGENFELTER GEROAD D

North Carolina 05/2008 Claims Vietnam POW   -  held captive from 1969 to 1973.  NO MILITARY RECORDS COULD BE LOCATED BY NPRC
Lindsay, Ronald . . Claims POW .
Lindsley, Kevin Waukesha, WI 06/01 Two broken legs from torture, $1500 a month disability .
Linker, Kris Madison, WI 11/2004
Seen VA Hospital in Madison. Claims POW in South Vietnam.
Liston, Don R. Hidden Valley Oasis/Stanfield
New Mexico/Arizona area
06/2003 Claims:
  • POW 
  • GREEN BERET
  • Police Dispatcher, Jailer, Riverside MS
  • Army 1967
  • 3rd in class of 97 to receive Airborne Ranger Certificate
  • 1968 A team near Lao border
  • had completed rescue of live POWs when captured
  • Broke a finger everyday during torture
  • 17 days later, chewed through the underwater soft bamboo made his way from Laos to SVN in THREE days.
  • Recuperated  in Japan then
  • returned to Nam to aid in possible rescue of his Captain....Liston shot 5 times, only survivor of 12 man team
  • Police Detective - Phoenix till 1980
  • PTSD, retired moved to Stanfield
  • Co-owner Hidden Valley Oasis Cafe and Mall Highway 84 and Maricopa
  • Subject of 45 PRM record, cassette album, and DW Fletchers book, CHIEU HOI.
  • Nominee for Medal of Honor
  • Stanfield Community Friendship Center Fun Day Parade Grand Marshall
PRELIM investigation shows possible match for 

Donald R. Liston
Army E4, MOS 71B20

71B

AMMUNITION CLK
CLK TYPIST
FOOD SERV CLK
LIBRARY ASSISTANT
MESS ACCOUNTS CLK
REPORTS CLK
SHIPPING CLK

 

Livezey, Tilden Leroy
aka
Roy Livezey
IRVING, TX
LISLE, IL
TULSA, OK
12/2006
Claims POW  for 7 years in Vietnam.  Claims he was a sniper in the USMC. Claims while stationed on Quantanamo Bay, Cuba,  he had Fidel Castro in his sights on two different occasions then word came down from Kennedy not to assassinate Castro. States that if it were not for the beatings he received as a youngster from his father who he claims  was a POW from WWII,  he could not have survived the torture from his captors  as a POW himself in Vietnam.

E4 LIVEZEY TILDEN L entered the USMC 29 June 1967 and got out 7 February 1978 during which time he served in Vietnam with an MOS of 3051 which was Warehouse Clerk. 

Locks, Gary L. Fairborn, OH in 1989

Centerville Ohio

1989
08/2001
12/2001
06/2005
04/2006
05/2007
USAF officer, claims shot down DaNang 1968 in an O2, 17 day captive.1989 stories were that he was a pilot, taken captive, and chewed through his bindings, escaped his bamboo cage and returned to kill his captors! Claimed Lt. Col, Purple Heart.

HE'S AT IT AGAIN - JUNE 2005
HE'S AT IT AGAIN - April 2006
Claims  he was the one and only POW  ever to escape and then return to kill his captors. 
HE'S AT IT AGAIN - On 5-17-07  at Grand Victoria Casino at Rising Sun , In.  He was evidently telling the same story .....

CONVICTED - 3 years probation, $1000 fine in 1993 for using a fake military history when he applied for a federal position.... Worked at Wright Patterson. Court found NO Vietnam service, NO POW captivity, NO Purple Heart.

NOTE: New reports are dated AFTER conviction.....

HAS POW LICENSE PLATES

Loftin Jr., William R. (Lofton) Little Rock AR . bamboo cage escapee 1 yr 9 months .
Logan, John M C  Los Angeles, CA 03/2005
Claims POW with John McCain at the Hanoi Hilton in 1968. Claims Purple Heart. Claims POW at VA. Claims his records burned.
Was in the Air Force for only one month way before the Vietnam War ever started.
Long, Donald WY 1999 Claims POW .
Long, Harry DE 05/02 Claims Prisoner of War, Purple Heart Born 1931
Long, Orville "Bo" . . Claims POW .
"Longfeather" KY . Claims POW .
Lopeman, Frank Amos Midland, MI 07/2002 Claims POW, approx  61  yrs old no records found
Lorenz, John Philip Cedar Rapids, IA . Claims POW .
Lorenz, Marty L. Colchester VT 11/01 Captured and taken POW in Vietnam April 2-4 1977. Escaped April 4, 1977. CIA op.

Subject: RE: MARTY LAWRENCE LORENZ.. captured?
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 16:54:48 -0500 

...this is the official word from DPMO

The official U.S. government database of all POWs and MIAs from the Vietnam War does not list anyone by the name of Lorenz (or any spelling close to it). This official U.S. government database DOES, repeat DOES, contain the names of individuals who served with and for the CIA during the war. It also includes personnel who were held captive for very, very short periods of time. It includes personnel who wore the military uniform, and those who did not. It includes those who worked so-called classified missions, covert missions, and "black missions." It includes missionaries as well as foreign nationals whose cases are related to those of missing Americans. It includes personnel captured or lost in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and China. It includes those missing or lost at sea.

It includes persons whose loss or capture incidents range from 1952 to 1988. This database was constructed during the war and refined throughout the years from reports by appropriate military or civilian authorities. It has been in existence for more than 30 years, and has been challenged dozens of times for "accuracy." It has never proven to have omitted a name that should be listed.

Lorith, Alan Robert Florida
2007 - Wake Forest, NC

2008 - Raleigh, NC area

07/01
10/2002
06/2007

05/2008

Claims USMC joined 1967. Jump Training at Bragg and Ft Dix for training. Captured Sept 1969, released on 2nd flight out June/July 1973. Wounded 3x.
Claims Echo Co 3rd Btn 3rd Mar Regt 3rd Mar Div. Claims music degree from Florida State - FSU denies attendance, degree. Life member Marine Corps League. Accepted on faith that DD214 would be forthcoming.....when it was received it had been "sanitized".

2007 - Still using suspected altered DD214.

Alan claimed to be both a former P.O.W as well as a Purple Heart Recipient

05/27/2008 - Alan was interviewed on the channel 14 news and was claiming to be a retired Marine.  He has perpetrated similar fraud and misrepresentation not only in North Carolina, but in Florida as well

Dob 1946 in Florida. Security guard, owns an extermination company.

Actual ARMY Records

CONFRONTED in 2003 --  Turned over to the local Marine Corps League Detachment he was a member of . DD214  WAS found  to have been altered.. He was  confronted with the fact he had never been in the Corps nor had he ever been a POW. Charges may be pending.

Loughery, William Paul
aka Loughery, Paul
Haymarket, VA 04/2004
11/2007
Claims his F-4 Phantom was shot down over North Vietnam in the late 1960's and he was captured and spent several years in the "Hanoi Hilton".  Claims  Marine, Officer, pilot based on a carrier during his tour of duty. 

Claims to have been a POW, Viet Nam era, F-4 type. Claims 18 months in captivity

Lack of Actual Records
Lowe, Gary M. Santa Barbara, CA 06/2002 Claims POW Navy SEAL Works for DFAS, San Bernadino
Lowe, Howard E. . 11/2005 statesman.com
Howard E. Lowe   
Death Notice

LOWE, Howard E., 55, of Austin died Oct. 16. Visitation 7 p.m. today, Austin-Peel and Son Funeral Home. Services 11 a.m. Friday, Austin-Peel and Son. Burial Onion Creek Cemetery.
Published in the Austin American-Statesman on 11/3/2005.

Howard Lowe March 21, 1950 - Oct. 16, 2005 We say goodbye today to our fearless leader, friend and flag bearer, who was always laughing, speeding ahead to scout the road and making it safe for us to pass. This time he went over that beautiful ridge and disappeared into the sunset setting the ultimate route we will all end up taking. Pave the road our friend and save us a good parking spot. Howard is survived by his family of friends and biker brothers and sisters. He was born in Rockville, Maryland and lived in Texas for the last 20 years. A former P.O.W., he served valiantly in Vietnam and continued throughout his life to serve Vets all over the world. The American flag he flew on the back of his bike was displayed for the pride, dedication and honor for his country. Howard formed bikers for vets, a bi-annual biker run for veterans supporting the Kerrville V.A. Hospital. "Bikers for Vets, Let none be forgotten" ... that was his motto. In lieu of flowers, please donate to the V.A. Hospital of your choice Goodbye our friend, we will never forget you. Visitation will be Thursday from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., at the Austin-Peel and Son Funeral Home, Inc. Funeral services will be held Friday at 11:00 a.m. at Austin Peel and Son with Pastor Randy Miller officiating. Interment will follow at the Onion Creek Cemetery near Manchaca, Texas. Austin Peel and Son Funeral Home, Inc., 607 East Anderson Lane, Austin, Texas 78752 (512)419-7224 Pallbearers will be Glen Dial, David Koch, Rick Lightbown, Sami Winstead, Rod Schtling, and Terry Maynard. Honorary pallbearers will be Tony Mele, David Gezmer, Rich Benesh, and Jason Cole.

Published in the Austin American-Statesman on 11/3/2005.

 

LOWE HOWARD E entered the Army in September 1969 and got out 28 December 1971 during which time he served in Vietnam with an MOS of 11B20 which was Infantryman. 

Luchi, John D Hazelton, PA
Montclair, NJ
1998

01/2005

07/2008

He has a business and not only claims being a POW but also escaping and then being a POW again as well as being wounded in action. 

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... have heard all the stories many times... Not only are the claims on your site exactly what he used to say but there's even more...
He told stories about when after discharged he was spit on and beat up in a bar in his home town (somewhere in PA). 

He says he rode home on his Harley (sometimes the harly was run over by a pickup and he walked home) either way; He claims he got into his truck and headed back to where the 2 guys who beat him up lived. They were drinking beer on the front porch and he rammed them at 70MPH and killed them both (sometimes killed one and crippled the other). He said he was charged with vehicular homicide but the judge simply took away his license for ever.


He claims he got into "trouble" and the judge said you can either go into the army or go to jail, he chose the army..
He claims while he was a POW the whole group of soldiers escaped and all but 4 were shot. He says he was later recaptured and released. 

Depending on his story he either signed up for a 2nd tour while he was still overseas or when he came home he went to see his mother and brother and immediately signed up again and left that day.

John acts like a tough guy and talks like he can kill you with his pinky 1000 different ways etc...  saw him back down and basically cower to a drunk who was at best his size...
 
John Luchi is nothing more than a blowhard liar and it makes me sick that people in my family have risked life and limb to defend our freedom and his as well!
Approx 52 yrs old in 2008.
Lurie, Brig Gen Alan or 
"Major Gen."
or
05/2002
Now a Marine 3 star General!
Maryland/Florida
Sons Scott and Evan in California. 
One son in Boca, FL.
(Has FOUR SONS from 1st Marriage)
Sister and brother in law, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kaufman.
Barbara Lew is 2nd wife. Wife is attorney. 

05/2002 - may no longer be with Lew... has new "girlfriend" - her daughter was 9/11 victim!

2002 = West Palm Beach, FL
Riviera Beach, FL

69 years old+

Multiple reports

1973 - 10/2001
02/2002
05/2002
07/2002
08/2002
07/2004
03/2005
12/2005
05/2006
07/2006
09/2006
05/2007

Loves to "invest" in lucrative businesses and then produces no money. Sellers left in limbo with no cash or bad checks. Wife is attorney. Stole Alan P. Lurie's identity in 1973 and has impersonated him since.  Convicted Felon - case involved SIXTY MILLION dollars in counterfeit U.S. Treasury bills (AP Jan 18, 1977). 1999 Scam involved 110 MILLION dollars worth of bonds in Europe. Uses military I.D. to travel. Flashes retired military I.D. card when introducing himself. Scotland Yard has their own file, as does FBI. Always threatens harm when confronted. Identity theft efforts to charge/convict have failed, and failed and failed.... 

Lurie called 05/06. Threatened libel suit. He has "never" claimed to be a POW and "never" impersonated an officer. [Latest deal must be down the drain....] Now claims Sixty Million counterfeit con  was "Secret Service" work he was doing. Has alot of SS contacts......... "I'm just a retired guy living off social security....."

Now has USMC baseball cap, and claims USMC Retired LtGeneral. Claims denied 4th star for angering Powell and Schwartzkoff. Claims President, St. Andrew Golf Club, and former owner of Hilton Hotel on Singer Island. Claims POW and only Jewish General in the Corps. Claims running for Senate in Florida in next election. Claims owns a G-3 jet, 90' yacht in Ft. Lauderdale. Family owns Fairmont in San Fran, and he owns Philadelphia Eagles. Used to own a baseball team. Claims HIS daughter 9/11 victim. Claims not married. Latest addition to tale is he served with Chesty Pullen at the Chosin Reservoir. Frequents North Palm Beach Country Club pool.

2004 -- Palm Beach
"Everything listed here is what he told me and also his newest ventures is meeting with North Koreans to build a casino, he goes back and forth to Baghdad, helping to rebuild it. He represents Samwhan Corporation. He also is buying oil and selling it for the Russians. He showed me a CD for $1 Billion from Chase Bank to substantiate his story.  ...   He's also met with Putin to build a hotel/apt. complex in the Kremlin."

March 2005 - 
He said everything you have on the website! Our people are laughing at him! How can he get away with this? Claims he has Cancer. Claims ex-wife is dean of a law school now.

Dec 2005
....is he the real general? He gave me a business card from the
Samwhan Corporation with the cell phone.....

May 2006
He said everything in your site information including he had $1B in a bank in the Bahamas he wanted to invest. 

July 2006
Claims he is meeting with the president of S.
Korea on 7/24/2006. Presented documents and passport to substantiate his story. Has apartment owned by ex wife in Forest Hills Queens.
 

Sept 2006
He gave me all the same crap that is on your website.

12/2006
Claims to have a district judge in his pocket. Claims to have Florida State Troopers in his pocket.  Allegedly putting together a movie deal about the Korean War that's going to be all about him. He's also  involved in some insurance thing now....
I'd love to see this whack job behind bars where he belongs.

May 2007
... ran into "Alan" in the Almaty Kazakhstan Airport on May 21, 2007. He told us many of the tall-tales listed on your website. Some new information is that he claimed to be a primary owner of ebay, Inc. He said he was in Kazakhstan to build up their communication network (i.e. fiber optics for phone and internet). He also claimed to have just purchased a home costing $22,000,000 next to Tiger Woods (he claimed to have paid for the house in cash). 

Sept 2007 

....met this man in 1993, he told me about running guns and selling for money, he told me about bank accounts in Geneva and that he funneled his money through the Bahamas. ....he took their family for a lot of money, supposedly, was building a hotel in the Bahamas with this construction company.... 
Sgt Alan Lurie served in the USMC from July 1, 1952 to June 30 1955.  
He was discharged a Sergeant. 
Place of Entry - New York, NY
Place of Separation  - Miami FL.
Primary MOS 0141 - ADMIN MAN.  Also a CHAPLAIN'S Asst.
Awards:  Korean Service Medal w/**
                UN Service Medal
                National Defense Service Medal
                Korean PUC
                Good Conduct Medal

NOT to be confused with former POW Brig Gen Alan P. Lurie   

Please contact the NETWORK immediately 
if approached by Lurie.

Lutostanski, Ronald  S AZ 04/2007

05/2008

Claims to be a former POW that "shared a cell" with  Senator John McCain!

Claims POW and claims he e served in special operations/undercover in Thailand, Greece, Mediterranean. Reports being good friends with John McCain who has invited him to attend inauguration when elected.

Served USAF June 67-June 71 and Oct 72 to May 84  in Greece, Germany and Thailand. .
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No Record of Vietnam Service.  No record of ever having been a POW.
No record of medals for Vietnam service No record of receiving the POW medal.

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Lyght, William Kenneth AZ . Claims POW .
LYNN, RON

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AK 04/2005 DISCOVERY CHANNEL "Best of Season 3" (2) DEADLIEST CATCH 

Claims 3 purple hearts, silver star, 32 months pow

No historical evidence that he was EVER held captive

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