We've had a few people people with legal infractions put their community service hours in at my VFW, doing yard work, post cleaning, and even working the dinners. I wonder if a restorative justice punishment, such as doing community service at a veterans organization would have been a more judicious, perhaps even rehabilitative punishment than a retributive sentence like that?

That said, I'm sure some, perhaps a majority, of the active comrades at my post wouldn't accept 'stolen valor' perpetrators to even clean our toilets.

Sounds like instituting The Mark Of Cain.

Slippery slope! Wouldn’t want to be someone without a dog licence in 50 years Time!

Put em in the Army for four years. I'm a Vet.