Aero-News: Quote of the Day

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"I don't think she intended to dishonor or disrespect anyone in the military. I think she just wanted people to like and respect her."

Source: Attorney William Webb Jr., regarding his client Lisa Jane Phillips -- the 35-year-old woman sentenced in North Carolina last week for impersonating a USAF Captain. Phillips was sentenced to spend a year and a day behind bars for impersonating a military officer. Court documents show she bought the medals and the uniforms off the internet, and started wearing flight suits to classes in August 2002. She explained absences from school in 2003 and 2004 as deployments abroad.... and even claimed to have suffered "war-induced anguish", and life-threatening injuries. Faculty at Meredith College believed her very convincing ruse, until a school security officer got suspicious last year.

FMI: www.meredith.edu