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Company of heroes vietnam1/31/2023 An ex-Navy sailor, Nicholson had been living in Florida in the late 1960s when he claimed to have fought and been captured by the Viet Cong. His storied Army career was an invention, his medals bought from a memorabilia dealer. When the Clermont County vets met a month later, they voted to expel Nicholson. “We couldn’t believe he wanted to join us.” “Here we were, rubbing elbows with a bona fide hero,” said David Murrell, leader of the VVA chapter that welcomed Nicholson into its ranks. In February, they saluted him after he was pinned with a Distinguished Service Cross, the Army’s second-highest award for bravery in combat. The vets came along as an honor guard when Nicholson spoke to school assemblies. Nicholson, who recounted tales of a harrowing stint as a prisoner of war, owned medals for battlefield valor. He was everything they were not.Ī retired small-town police chief, Nick Nicholson, 62, walked into the Clermont County Vietnam Veterans of America post with a soldier’s stride uneroded by three decades of civilian life. Nicholson, the Vietnam War veterans of this hill county took to him like love-struck suitors. When one appeared a year ago in the barrel-chested figure of Donald R. Heroes rarely materialize out of thin air.
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