From CNN.COM: 

FBI: Medal of Honor fakers outnumber true heroes

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (AP) — A proliferation of phony heroes is prompting such groups as The Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation to lobby for tougher laws to punish the impostors.

The organization reports that there are 113 living recipients of the nation’s highest military award, but an FBI agent who tracks the fakes said impostors outnumber the true heroes.

“There are more and more of these impostors, and they are literally stealing the valor and acts of valor of the real guys,” said Agent Tom Cottone, who also works on an FBI violent crime squad in West Paterson, New Jersesy.

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