Danny Stecher; phony Vietnam POW
Some bereaved widow wrote about her deceased husband over at the Daily Kos and about the day that she spread his ashes at the Vietnam Memorial Wall in 2007, two years after he passed. She was under the misapprehension that her husband was a Vietnam War veteran, I’m guessing because that’s what he told her. Here are some screen shots of her article;
As many of you know, my husband, Dan, was a Vietnam vet and a POW. His missions were covert, so he was never recogized or acknowledged by the US government.
Yeah, no;
She claims that he joined in 1969, but he enlisted in 1965, he served about 3 and a half years on active duty and he was discharged in early 1969. But the closest he got to Vietnam was Missouri. No clandestine missions, no POW confinement. I’m not sure if she made up that clandestine, POW BS to impress her hippie buddies (one of whom is named “Peace” if that doesn’t make you vomit) or if he had convinced her of the stories. Either way, it didn’t happen. I noticed that it doesn’t mention any of it in the obituary.
So I kind of think she made it up to get sympathy from her stank-ass hippie friends. So I’m not putting him in the Stolen Valor page because it’s not his fault that his widow wants to stand on his dead body to make her stupid anti-war points.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit, I hate hippies
Peace out hommie….
Did she blame Agent Orange and President Nixon for his death?
Nixon? Of course not; everyone knows it was Bush who caused his death.
Closest he got to Vietnam was Missouri, huh?
Maybe he was a tunnel rat.
It was his job to eradicate the tunnels the VC had dug from Vietnam and came up in places around Whiteman AFB, Missouri?
Yeah, that’s it.
He must’ve taken a wrong turn in Albuquerque.
For completeness, here are links to DoD’s comprehensive Vietnam POW Escapee, Returnee, and Accounted-For lists:
http://www.dpaa.mil/portals/85/Documents/VietnamAccounting/pmsea_escapee.pdf
http://www.dpaa.mil/portals/85/Documents/VietnamAccounting/pmsea_returnee.pdf
http://www.dpaa.mil/portals/85/Documents/VietnamAccounting/pmsea_acc_p_state.pdf
All the last names beginning with “STE” are on the “Accounted-For” list. They all bear the code “NR” – which means they came home in a box.
None of those lists includes the name “Stecher”.
Since his obit doesn’t mention anything about “Vietnam POW”, it certainly sounds to me like “Chacounne”/”Heather” here is taking some “creative liberties with the truth”.
“There on the wall was his name.”
Uh, no.
Yep. “Chacounne”/”Heather” here is nothing but a LSoS.
http://www.virtualwall.org/ds/0s.htm
Per the above list, there are only 6 last names beginning with the letters “STEC” on the Wall. None of them are “STECHER”.
She never said his last name was on the wall, just “Danny”. So apparently that was good enough. Is she British? Not that it matters, but it’s spelled “honor” in US English. Regardless, the guy was at a SAC base in some of the hottest times of the cold war. He deserves to be recognized for that and not some pretend crap.
You have a point – there are a number of men named “Danny Lee (Surname)” listed on the Vietnam Memorial. However, see below – she’s apparently a “repeat offender” on this score. Plus, she’s doing it knowingly. She also apparently knows full well her husband never served in Vietnam and wasn’t a POW.
The stank-dumbass hippie is strong with her. Who is this “wonderfully kind and knowledgeable Kossack” she mentions that is helping her? Faker6 is that you?.
I concur, GDC! I think she also has a very prominent streak of attention whore in her as well!
His widow, Heather Stecher, a Canadian, was informed in 2007 that her deceased husband was not a Vietnam POW. She even admitted she went to the POWNETWORK to read information.In this 2007 article, she makes some sort of apology and stated she should of done more research on her husband’s claim (Please scroll down to read her comments when someone brought to her attention that her husband was not a POW:
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/421821/#comment_15133279
YET, in 2013, he wrote again that her husband was a Vietnam Vet who was tortured:
http://indigenousnationhood.blogspot.com/2012/06/sun-media-or-hate-media-racism-for-sale.html
Heather StecherJanuary 4, 2013 at 11:29 PM
Thank you, Dr. Palmater. As a white Canadian, I am ashamed of how your precious children were kidnapped and tortured. I am ashamed of how the Prime Minister has treated Chief Spence. I am appalled at Sun/Hate Media. I am Canadian, but my husband was a US Vietnam vet who suffered torture; when he died I took up the mission of standing up against torture and standing up for Omar Khadr…..With gratitude, Heather Stecher (chacounne@gmail.com)
And last, she was on the Go Fund Me page in 2014 stating again that her husband was a Vietnam Vet who was tortured:
https://www.gofundme.com/735w2w
Oh…she’s one of THOSE. Just an attention whore using the “cause du jour.
And a LSoS libidiot as well.
I’m shocked, shocked.
“when he died I took up the mission of standing up against torture and standing up for Omar Khadr…..With gratitude, Heather Stecher (chacounne@gmail.com)”
Uh yeah, I’m gonna have to say fuck her. For her support of Omar Khadr only, fuck her.
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/omar-khadr-describes-firefight-that-killed-u-s-soldier-im-just-going-to-throw-this-grenade
Omar Khadrs story gave me HIV.
One time I was in a meth about doing nothing wrong and all of a sudden the SWAT team was raiding it so I picked up a AK74 with a 74 round drum and started shooting them in the vest, you know to scare them off. Then I got sent to prison when I was completely innocent it was just wrong.
Oh damnit the HIV turned into AIDs.
*meth lab
Reading her drivel may be considered a particularly heinous form of torture.
His torture was being married to her…
Haha that made me laugh
‘Peace’? You know, dragging this whole hippie thing into your senior years is so LAME! When ‘Peace’ croaks, her headstone will confuse a lot of people.
peace out ! ! ! ! with star flowers and J bars.. dudet he he he he ! ! !
Notice she uses the tried and true “as a white”…We got us one of those “white guilt” people, people. Screw her hippie ass and stop trashing his honorable service, you dumb, uncaring, inconsiderate biotch.
Screw her hippie ass . . .
Um, think I’ll pass. (smile)
I agree that she needs to STFU, though.
Senile proggy whorebag must have gotten tired of her Canadian aborigine fight and decided to pursue this POW thingie for a bit before moving on to the fight against “climey change”…
Someone writing up a bunch of bullshit at Daily Kos?
Who fucking knew?
At first I did not understand where we were going with this. It seemed almost as if she had found her husband’s name on the Wall. That was such a stupid thought, thinking she had found her husband’s name BEFORE he had died. Finally it made sense after reading it again. She merely found some other dude’s name, the first name having been the first name as her husband’s. After getting over the initial shock of my stupidity, I reached the only conclusion this slow and warped mind could gather.
Fortunately for her, in looking for a matching name, her husband was not named Shitheadlyingmotherfucker.
Or was it? Anybody ever see that name on the wall?
Anyone else notice after 3 and 1/2 years active duty and then 2+ years in the reserves this balls-to-the-wall hard charger was discharged as an Airman First Class which I’m going to go with as an E-3 in 1960s era?
A revised AFR 39-36 on 19 October 1967 renamed Airman Third Class, Airman Second Class and Airman First Class to Airman, Airman First Class and Sergeant respectively. This returned Sergeant to the rank structure as the first step in the NCO tier as a retention move but required achievement of a 5-skill Air Force Specialty Code (AFSC) level. No changes to the respective insignias were made.
In a 30 December 1975 directive the grade of Sergeant was split into two separate ranks while retaining the grade of E-4. Senior Airman would be the last junior enlisted tier rank while Sergeant would remain the first rank in the NCO tier.
So I’m still thinking E-1 Airman Basic, E-2 Airman, E-3 Airman First Class, then E-4 Sergeant.
I do remember in the 1980s when I was in my first enlistment, I had made and held E-4 Senior Airman a good while before my 4 year term ran out. They would usually dangle Sergeant at you to get you to reenlist.
Looks like this guy was a bit of a dick stepper to only make E-3.
E-1 AB out of Basic training
E-2 Airman Under normal conditions promotions to E-2 are automatic as long as the Air Force’s standards for performance and behavior are met. The only requirement for advancement is 6 months time in grade (TIG) and time in service (TIS).
E-3 Airman First Class- Ten months TIG as an Airman (E-2)
Senior Airman (In 1969 it would have been Sergeant) (E-4) – 36 months TIS with 20 months TIG, or 28 months TIG, whichever occurs first.
So it looks like shithead here was low speed high drag.
/get over it, he’s dead Jim.
Back then, guys were probably just thrilled that they hadn’t been drafted into the USMC and they didn’t have to go to Vietnam. Rank didn’t matter that much.
Yeah, I saw that ChipNASA. But he did serve during a time when others would not; and he’s not the one lying about his military record today. So I decided it was irrelevant and didn’t mention it.
plus, looks like there was no reenlistment so he volunteered – draft would only have put him in for two. Did the AF have an equivalent to the Good Conduct 3 year goody bar award? If so, the lack probably indicates why he attained the august rank of E3 in almost 4 years during a war.
Yeah I noticed that, but you beat me to the comment.
What is disturbing is her Go-Fund-Me request. Yes, I know it is not SV, because her husband is deceased, but it seems to me she used him to get some financial benefit from it…even after she “apologized” that she did not do research on her husband’s claim to being a Vietnam Vet or a POW…or maybe he never did make those claims and she made up the story herself…only she can answer that.
So she rubbed his ashes on the name Danny on this sacred wall…
“There on the was his name… His first name… Danny… I got some of Dan’s ashes and rubbed…”
Oh no you didn’t… What a scumbag, lying, stinking skank!
I’m sure some family really appreciates this scumbag rubbing ashes (from a butt can she picked up in the alley behind the skank hole strip club she works at) on their loved one’s name…
If she is looking for sympathy she can find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis
Now, Club Manager – we live in a PC era.
The approved phrase today is “between manure and venereal disease”. (smile)
That would be somewhere around “Phil Monkress”?
Fuck her. Just another Jane Fonda type bitch. If she supports Omar Khadr then she can rot in hell.
Yeah, fuck her and her support for Omar Khadr.
http://www.therebel.media/media_party_and_omar_khadr