Medal Of Honor Recipient Invited To Join Crime-Fighting Superheroes
COLUMBIA, KY –Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer reported today that he has received his initial invitation to join the League of Valor, a vigilante crimefighting organization composed of Marines whose amazing acts of heroism have been gradually forgotten by the Marine Corps.
"I was settling in for a nice quiet evening of polishing my gun collection and sharpening my knives, when I heard a muffled thump from outside," Meyer told reporters.
"When I opened the door with the muzzle of my AR-15, I found someone had nailed a letter to my house with this big 'League of Valor' letterhead. Of course they had nailed it through a Mexican drug lord's head, so the rest was hard to read."
According to spokesman Jeremiah Workman, a former Marine and Navy Cross recipient, The League was formed in late 2008 after the Marine Corps began institutionally purging itself of all memories of the Iraq War.
"I first noticed it in 2009 when I was doing an event for my book Shadow of the Sword. I had two PFCs co…
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