POW
Patrick Dowdee – POW, 2 Silver Stars & 3 Purple Hearts
DISCLAIMER: In the challenging age of COVID-19, the National Personnel Records Center is operating at a reduced capacity and is only entertaining emergencies and funerals at this time. Although we filed for Mr. Dowdee’s military records, we don’t anticipate they will come until sometime in the winter or spring of 2021. In the meantime, we […]
Valor Friday
Emil Kapaun is today’s subject as I continue to explore chaplains who earned high valor awards. Kapaun, the son of Czech immigrants, was born and raised in rural Kansas. A bright kid, he graduated high school at age 14. Then attended Conception Abbey Seminary college and finally Kenrick Theological Seminary before being ordained a Catholic […]
Removal of POW/MIA flag from atop White House sparks anger among those who hate the president
The White House moved the POW/MIA flag from atop the White House to a POW/MIA memorial site on the South Lawn earlier this year. Since The Atlantic trashed what little reputation they have as a source of journalism recently with an anonymously sourced hit piece against the president (widely discredited by actual, named sources) now […]
SEAL team reunites for first time after years of secrecy
On Sunday, a group of Vietnam veterans were together for the first time since they shared a tragic night together in 1972 in the Gulf of Tonkin. For decades, they weren’t allowed to talk about the incident – not even to each other. During the 23rd Annual Military Gala & Banquet at the Chateau on […]
Korean War POWs: The PRC Detainees
Some years ago, I wrote a series of articles regarding POWs and listings of same. In that article, I attempted to document as many us military personnel as I reasonably could who might be considered bona fide prisoners of war – terrorist incidents excepted (I noted some, but that’s a very difficult research project). Links […]
John DeSomer – Fake POW, 8 Bronze Stars, 4 Purple Hearts
The folks at MilitaryPhony send us their work on John Edward DeSomer. DeSomer died on November 7, 2019. His obituary got huge distribution across at least 9 newspapers and 3 online news services, if not more. The obituary raised some eyebrows with all the military accomplishments and DeSomer was not listed as a Prisoner of […]
Fake SEAL Charged with Defrauding VA Out of More Than $300K
Several newspapers are reporting that Richard Meleski allegedly faked his service as a Navy SEAL, falsely claimed he served in Beirut, claimed he was both a POW and Silver Star recipient to defraud the VA out of more than $300,000. The Philadelphia Inquirer writes: A 58-year-old Bucks County man was indicted for falsely claiming he […]
Valor Friday
Witold Pilecki Mason has done it again, this time with the incredible saga of Witold Pilecki, a Polish Freedom Fighter before, during and after World War Two. He fought Nazis and Russians in their turn, was even willingly incarcerated in Auschwitz to gather intell on the conditions there. Enough from me, here’s.. Mason As this […]
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