Lying!!! Lying about your Military Career? Lying on Social Media? Does America Make it too Easy to Cover up the Truth? Or would George Orwell be Proud of our Collective Behavior?

The Best Paragraph I've Read: Politicians lie to get us into wars; generals lie about how well things are going; soldiers lie about what they did during their service. In 1782, when George Washington awarded ribbons and badges to valorous Revolutionary War troops, he was already worrying about pretenders. “Should any who are not entitled to these honors have the insolence to assume the badges of them they shall be severely punished,” he wrote. When Walter Washington Williams, thought to be the last surviving veteran of the Confederate Army, died, in 1959, President Eisenhower called for a national day of mourning. It turned out that Williams had fabricated his service, and that the second-longest-surviving Confederate soldier probably had, too. In fact, according to the Civil War historian William Marvel, “every one of the last dozen recognized Confederates was bogus.” But it’s only recently that lying about military service has been considered a particularly heinous form of lying, one with its own name: stolen valor. This paragraph is from an article in the New Yorker titled: "How to Spot A Military Imposter."  The article is written by Rachel Monroe. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/26/how-to-spot-a-military-impostor Zac and Don discuss the topic of people who lie about their military service.  Zac and Don also discuss lying in society and how it impacts us. Zac and Don also discuss the following books: Everybody Life: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Lies-Internet-About-Really/dp/0062390856   Catch Me If You Can https://www.amazon.com/Catch-Me-If-You-Can/dp/0767905385/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1605738687&sr=1-2 1984 https://www.amazon.com/Nineteen-Eighty-Four-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0198829191/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1605738746&sr=1-2