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Is Tim Walz Really Guilty of ‘Stolen Valor’?
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz speaks at a campaign rally in Glendale, Arizona, on August 9, 2024. (Photo by Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
It was supposed to be an asset, but the VP candidate’s military service has turned into a headache for the Democrats. We sort the truth from the falsehoods.
By Joe Nocera and Frannie Block
08.15.24 — U.S. Politics
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In April 1981, two days after his seventeenth birthday, Tim Walz joined the Army National Guard. His father and sister were both military veterans, and as he would later say in a 2009 Library of Congress interview, “I think it was instilled in us. I never really thought of a time when I wouldn’t join some branch.”

He stayed in the Guard, first in Nebrask…

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Joe Nocera
Joe Nocera is an editor and writer at The Free Press. During his long career in journalism, he has been a columnist at The New York Times, Bloomberg, Esquire, and GQ, the editorial director of Fortune, and a writer at Newsweek, Texas Monthly and The Washington Monthly. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2007.
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