Man Seen On Video Yelling At Man For Wearing Camouflage Shirt

SACRAMENTO, CA -- A video of a Sacramento man claiming to be a Marine yelling at an elderly man for wearing a camouflage t-shirt has gone viral on Facebook. The video, which was posted by the elderly man's daughter, has been viewed more than 385,000 times and shared more than 4,500 times since it was posted Sunday.

The video shows a man yelling "My friends died. My friends died and you're going to wear it."

A woman, who is not shown in the video, then responds "OK, OK, he is going to take it off. It's OK. I'm sorry."

"I'm a Marine," the man responds. "I fought for our country. This mother [expletive] is going to wear this [expletive]."

The video was posted by Van Khon, who said the man in the video was her father.

"I don't understand how somebody can get this angry over an elderly man wearing camouflage t-shirt who never argued one word back to him," Khon wrote. "He's ok but when this happened he was paralyzed, confused from fear and shock."

Khon wrote her father was on his way to the farmer's market when they encountered the man, identified by Fox40 as Alex Wolpert.

"This man walked and came out of nowhere yelling, screaming and harassing him and asking him why he was wearing that (he had a short sleeved camouflage cotton t-shirt on)," Khon wrote. "My father knows little English and is in his mid 70's didn't answer him or didn't understand what he was saying to him."

Khon claimed Wolpert pulled her father's collar and threatened to kill him. She said her father served in the Vietnam War for Laos and the U.S.

In an interview with Fox40, Wolpert apologized for the encounter.

"Wolpert claims to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder and dissociative identity disorder. He said he's checking himself into a rehabilitation center over the encounter," Fox40 reported.

Read the Fox40 story here.

Patch reached out to the U.S. Marine Corps for comment.

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