Stolen Valor: Scammer’s Claims of Marine Corps Heroism, Cancer Finally Crumble
Military
By Hannah Ray Lambert | February 02, 2022
Marine Maj. Thomas Schueman sat across from a young Marine Corps veteran in a coffee shop and listened to her story. The woman told him her twin brother had been killed in action. Her service-connected cancer had spread to her brain. The bills were piling up and her home was about to be foreclosed on.
Sarah Cavanaugh wasn’t a stranger to Schueman. He’d first heard her name when she attended a retreat last summer in Montana through his nonprofit group, Patrol Base Abbate. He’d met her in person several months later at a veterans event with a different nonprofit and the pair bonded over a shared passion for the humanities and books like The Iliad.
“I was excited to nerd out about that stuff,” Schueman said.
As it turned out, Cavanaugh wanted to work for Patrol Base Abbate, Schueman said, but Schueman had to tell her that the group didn’t have the funding to hire her.
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