During his failed vice-presidentail bid, Tim Walz faced charges of stolen valor in about the same way as Brave Sir Robin from Monty Python and the Holy Grail faced his travails – had SIr Robin had the benefit of a compliant media that did its best to keep the issue quiet.
And Walz is famous for holding town halls – in states where he’s not the governor. In Minnesota, not so much.
The allegations – that Walz, after a long and honorable career in the Nebraska and Minnesota Army National Guards, rising to the rank of Command Sergeant Major, left his unit (the 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery, in Mankato), the highest ranking enlisted man in the 700-odd man battalion and a vital part of the unit’s fabric, before submitting his retirement papers on the eve of its ordered deployment to Iraq in 2005, to run for Congress.
Now, like about 99% of…
