Moose72, thanks for sharing your experience. Sorry to hear your Dad is an alcoholic. So is mine.

Nammu of course you are right that real vets take a dim view of fakes, but I am not going to reintroduce myself into his life and any problems that might come with that. It is just amazing that he is so persistent he has convinced a veteran's charity and a trauma support group and charity that he is a vietnam vet with 'severe ptsd'. I wasn't the first nor the last that he scammed.

I finally came to the conclusion he either had some kind of personality disorder or was just a psychopath.