Talk:Saved by the Light
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In the book: STOLEN VALOR P385-387, the author B.G. Burkett details how using FOIA requests he determined that:
1. The author of SAVED BY THE LIGHT was never more than a truck driver in the military. 2. The author never left the United States during his eighteen months of service. 3. When Roy Rivenburg of the Los Angeles Times questioned Brinkley's tales of heroism, the angelic mouthpiece declined to offer any evidence of overseas duty, saying that the government was covering up his record because it was classified. Earlier in Stolen Valor, the author details how military records list dates of classified service. And that it is common for liar's to claim their feats aren't in the records because they are "classified". Pages 385-434 comprise the chapter, WAR STORIES AND OTHER LIES. Almost all the movies about the Viet Nam war are mostly lies and/or fantasies. The author is perhaps the number one user of FOIA requests in history as he searches for truth amid all the lies about Viet Nam military service. Stolen Valor Act of 2005 --- Stolen Valor Jimmyreno (talk) 16:56, 3 August 2009 (UTC)jimmyreno |
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Purported
[edit]"purportedly describing his purported near-death experience"
I deleted both purpoteds. Reason:
- "Purportedly describing" would be correct if the blurb said it described his experience, but actually, the book is about something else.
- What is a "purported near-death experience"? He did not experience that? Did he invent the whole thing? No, it is just his experience, and unless there is good evidence that he did not actually have it, we say he had it. That does not mean something spooky is going on.
Skepticism is my thing too, but that one is just silly. --Hob Gadling (talk) 05:44, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
- OK; I get that the second "purported" is justified, but the first one still says: "the book is about something else entirely, but people claim it is about describing his purported near-death experience." --Hob Gadling (talk) 06:53, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
- The use of purported is due to the fact that the very idea he was dead has been challenged due to inconsistencies and changes in the story of his claimed NDE. RobP (talk) 16:19, 13 January 2019 (UTC)