Stars and Stripes|Oct 31, 2014
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Lying about receiving a military medal is protected speech,
but there's no right to wear a combat decoration that hasn't been earned,
a federal appeals court said Wednesday.
The difference,
said a divided panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,
is that lying is speech, but wearing a medal is conduct
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