“Video that shows 40,000 US soldiers resigning and throwing away their medals after they fought in Afghanistan and Iraq”
Social media posts
Claim dated 11 Oct 2021.
FACTLY rated thisMISLEADING
What FACTLY found
The visuals are from an anti-NATO rally in 2012 in Chicago where nearly 50 US veterans threw away their medals. The veterans were protesting the US’ war in Afghanistan and Iraq. There are no recent news reports of such huge number of soldiers (40,000) resigning after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 11 October 2021. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 14 October 2021, 3 days later. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.
Where the claim appeared
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