Earlier this month, Fox News featured a story about a highly decorated veteran: a Navy SEAL who had served in Vietnam, had earned two Purple Hearts and had hand-carved a presidential seal that he hoped to give to President Trump.
But on Thursday, the network issued a correction to the Oct. 8 segment about the veteran, John Garofalo, and said that “all” of his claims “turned out to be untrue.”
In the segment, Mr. Garofalo was identified as a member of the first Navy SEAL team, who had been awarded 22 commendations.
“The fact is that he did not serve in Vietnam,” Fox said in its statement.
“He was never a U.S. Navy SEAL,” it continued. “Even though he showed us medals, Garofalo was not awarded two Purple Hearts or any of the other nearly two dozen commendations he claimed to have received, except for the National Defense Service Medal.”
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The statement concluded, “We apologize to our viewers, especially veterans and servicemen and women.”
Daxuran on October 20th, 2017 at 23:40 UTC »
was his name Neil McBiel?
nightcrawler616 on October 20th, 2017 at 23:08 UTC »
When I was in the Navy, I never once met a SEAL. I went to boot camp with a little group of pre-BUDS or whatever... but never met an actual SEAL.
However, as a veteran the moment I reveal I was in the Navy... Everybody and their chiropractor was a SEAL, almost a SEAL, is bffs with a SEAL. You can't swing a dead squid without hitting seven SEAL related people.
Seems like we had so many SEALs... Why even bother with the Marines? Hell, maybe I was a SEAL and just never knew.
impulsekash on October 20th, 2017 at 21:48 UTC »
A guy from my high school does this. He tells people he was in a military and did a tour in Iraq when in reality he was in prison for sexual assault, which is his biggest accomplishment in life.