Being injured in the line of duty is something to be proud of after having willingly sacrificed so much for your country — so, it comes as no surprise that veterans are up in arms over an American Idol contestant who blatantly fabricated his terrifying tale of wartime horror.

Matthew Farmer has come clean and admitted that the touching tale he told on Wednesday's Idol, of his harrowing road to recovery after suffering traumatic brain injury from an IED explosion in Iraq , was "all lies" FoxNews.com has revealed.