AZ Gov Lied About Father's Death

Is there a virus going around state houses and governors’ mansions that causes people to lie about war records? Arizona Governor Jan Brewer recently said that her father was killed fighting Nazis in World War II, but The Arizona Guardian says that he did not die until 10 years after the war had ended. Brewer mentioned her father’s death in an interview with The Arizona Republic about the criticism she’s faced since signing her state’s controversial immigration bill. “Knowing that my father died fighting the Nazi regime in Germany, that I lost him when I was 11 because of that … and then to have them call me Hitler’s daughter. It hurts. It’s beyond anything I’ve ever experienced,” she told the paper on Tuesday. Brewer’s spokesman said that her father died from the toxic fumes he inhaled while working at an ammunition factory, but said, “She wasn’t embellishing the story at all. You’re reading something into this that isn’t there.”