Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of its Heroes and its History is a self-published book by B.G. Burkett & Glenna Whitley which asserts both that there is a popular view of Vietnam War veterans as broken men and psychopaths and that this view is false. In addition the book purports to document "wannabes": people lying about Vietnam experience, often when they had never been there. B.G. Burkett is a Vietnam War Veteran who served with the 199th Light Infantry Brigade as a company grade officer. Glenna Whitley is an investigative journalist who writes about crime and the legal system.