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.
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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