Werner J Genot

Jack Genot was kicked out of the Marine Corps League. The documentation provided and additional documents gathered with his date of birth show he could not be at the Chosen Reservoir.
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The Northwest Herald
11/20/2005
'I'm tired of the facade'
By Kevin Craver
Northwest Herald

Werner "Jack" Genot is a broken man, far from his longtime community standing as a decorated Marine Corps combat veteran.

Few people in town are unaware of his military record. The 71-year-old Marengo alderman fought with the 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, during the Corps' heroic stand at the Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War, and he spent 10 months and 10 days as a prisoner of war before escaping during a joint raid by U.S. and South Korean forces.

What most everyone does not know, however, is that every bit of the tale is false...

click the above link for the entire expose.

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Confession shocks community
Publication	Northwest Herald
Date	November 21, 2005
Section(s)	Main
By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@nwherald.com MARENGO - Community members and veterans expressed surprise and outrage over alderman Werner "Jack" Genot's confession that his war record was a figment of his imagination. Prompted by mounting questions over his service record and factual errors in his accounts, Genot confessed in Sunday's paper that he concocted his well-known story that he was a Marine veteran of the Chosin Reservoir battle during the Korean War and spent more than 10 months as a prisoner of war. "I'm just like everyone else in town. It shocked everybody," said Eugene Boxleitner, adjutant of American Legion Post 192, where Genot has been a member for 28 years.....

A Marengo alderman has acknowledged spinning an elaborate web of lies about serving with the Marines during a bloody Korean War battle and about being a prisoner of war.

Werner "Jack" Genot, who was a Marengo alderman in the 1980s and was elected again in 2003, said in an interview Monday that the lies about his military service began as barroom bravado decades ago and grew out of control over the years.......

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Expos & eacute; prompts action
Publication Northwest Herald
Date December 08, 2005

Secretary of State Jesse White wants Marengo Alderman Werner "Jack" Genot to be the last person in Illinois to acquire military license plates falsely.

Angered by Genot's confession that he acquired Purple Heart and ex-POW license plates with forged discharge papers, White announced Wednesday that he would submit legislation to the General Assembly next month to make the act a Class A misdemeanor punishable by a $1,000 fine.....

Genot confessed in the Nov. 20 Northwest Herald that he fabricated his decades-old tale of being taken prisoner as a Marine in a famous Korean War battle. In his admission, he said he actually had joined the Army in 1953 and served in Europe for three years before receiving a less-than-honorable discharge. He did not see combat....

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Published: November 29, 2005

Local News: Rockford
Alderman who made up military record got counseling here

By PAT MILHIZER, Rockford Register Star

ROCKFORD — A Marengo alderman, exposed last week for fabricating a military record, attended counseling sessions here that are supposed to be for veterans who have seen combat and struggle with post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Jack Genot, 71, went to meetings at the Vet Center Outstation in Rockford under the guise that he was a prisoner of war as a Marine in Korea in the early 1950s.

But it wasn't true......