Although many impersonators are just deluded by their own sense of inadequacy, there seems to be a worrying and quite unhealthy link between Walts, children and guns. I recall when I was in Air Cadets that there were two officers dismissed from my unit for 'inappropriate' behaviour. At 14 or so we - the cadets - thought these guys were great, plying us with beer, leaving copies of Playboy around etc etc. One of them claimed - though not directly - to have been in the SIS and they used to arrange for a local militaria collector - who would wear a psuedo naval uniform- to bring weapons along to informal weekend camps. This character was locked up twice for child sex offences (though not involving cadets). An illustrative example is at
http://www.anzmi.net/mccarthy/mccarthy.html What you let him near your kids? Would you let them wear a hat like that??
Supporting the above poster: if they are prepared to lie about death and destruction, what else are they capable of doing?