A few years ago I had a relationship with a guy who pretended to be a vietnam vet who had served with American special forces despite being Canadian. I fell for it hook line and sinker and all his made up stories of valour.

Eventually I realized it was all fake and found a historical photo archive of pictures he had taken back in Canada during the vietnam war. He was actually newspaper photographer and a lot of his photos from that time were preserved with date, name and location.

The man would lie about what he had for breakfast. He pretended to have ptsd from his fake war experiences in vietnam including flashbacks.

Recently I ran across a video on facebook for a trauma group where they celebrate their veteran member "Roger" on Veteran's day. He's convinced all these other people now that he served, when I know he never did.

I was sorely tempted to post a reply but rarely post anything on facebook and it isn't a healthy look to still be thinking about someone you last saw almost 4 years ago.

Why would someone invent a whole fake history?