Jerry Harrell; panhandling phony veteran still at it
We wrote about Jerry Harrell almost three years ago when someone spotted him panhandling in Boston, Massachusetts. He was passing himself off as a Vietnam veteran, and the truth is that he has no military service, according to the National Personnel Records Center;
Well, he’s back at it again and journalists at the Tuft’s Daily News don’t have access to Google, apparently;
Somerville has become an increasingly expensive area to live in, with an online estimate by Zillow citing an eight percent increase in housing costs in the past year. At the same time, nonprofits like Spare Change News and the SHC have worked to help individuals throughout the area, including formerly homeless veteran Jerry Harrell.
Born and raised in East Boston, Mass., Harrell left the city in 1970 to fight in the Vietnam War. After years in combat, Harrell found himself back in the United States as a war veteran with nowhere to turn.
That “Spare Change” newspaper in his greasy little dick-beaters was created so the panhandlers would have something to give their benefactors on the street. Our tipster has contacted Spare Change as well as the Tuft’s Daily about Harrell and he was treated to the full-throated cricket chorus from both.
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
He looks good behind bars!
He best pray that I don’t come across him after watching a Sox loss, sitting in the sun with a stomach full of beer.
I get *a little* pugnacious.
“…Harrell left the city in 1970 to fight in the Vietnam War. After years in combat, Harrell found himself back in the United States as a war veteran with nowhere to turn.
“My mom passed away,” Harrell said. “I was staying with my dad, then he couldn’t cope, and so I had nowhere to go and ended up in the shelter system.”
Wait. What? He spent years in combat? His mother died and his Dad couldn’t cope? This clown is a piece of work.
These bullshit Viet of the Nam faux warriors abound. There are likely ten of them for every real vet who actually served in combat over there. Statistics show that real Vietnam veterans are better educated, stay in stable relationships (marriages) in higher percentages, and have lower rates of unemployment and homelessness than their peers who never served. Most homeless “vets” are bums who either never served or couldn’t even meet the Gunga Dan line, IMHO.
I grew up hanging around Maverick Square in East Boston. In 1970 I was vacationing in Viet of the Nam and he was not.
“After years in combat”
Sure Jerry. Sure.
My civilian buddies from Eastie would have curb stomped you and your sign all the way through the tunnel and up and down the runway at Logan then fed you to the gulls.
26Limabeans; By any chance did you know Jerry Rudnick who did two tours in Viet-Nam and the first golf war in the Army reserves and used to play cards with Bulgers crew.
Negative but the name sounds familiar.
Bulgers crew was Southie but he had people all over both the North and South Shore. I pre date most of his crimes as I was a high school fool in the sixties.
After “years of combat” though I hung around the area for a while. Mostly next door in Winthrop.
26Limabeans; Destroyer I was on was in the Beth Steel yard in East Boston in ’76-’77. Good friend and shipmate was kidnapped from outside of Rose and Mary’s Bar just off of Maverick Square, 12/16/76. He was found next day behind a apartment building in Revere, in the backseat of a stolen car, shot four times in the back of the head.Long story short,letter sent to ship said it was “mistaken identity”. Never solved. Took him home to his family in El Paso a few days later. Family never heard from Navy or Mass State Police after funeral or to this day. 18 years old and rests under a headstone at Ft Bliss. Sorry this is off-topic, saw you were originally from East Boston and the memories came back.
Sorry for your loss.
And thank you for taking your friend home.
I hung around there as some of my friends had good Catholic families
and stayed away from the dark side. The crime culture was vastly different in my day but the early eighties saw an explosion in drugs throughout Eastie, Revere, Orient Heights etc.
Today the whole area is infested with illegals and their drugs.
Italian and Irish fled long ago except for some die hard enclaves like the North End. Sad.
Cocksucker!
BOOM. SHACK.
Another lying Masshole.
FUCK YOU!!!!, jerkoff.
What? Two phonies in one day, both from Massachusetts and both claiming to be a Marine?
Yep. Ole Jerry claims USMC service. Here is a 2016 story he wrote in that wonderful newspaper “SpareChange” (Where is Lavan, the New York Checkfactor when you need her?):
http://sparechangenews.net/2016/09/way-support-homeless-veterans/
http://sparechangenews.net/author/gerald-harrell/
“My name is Gerald Harrell. I’ve been a Spare Change News vendor since 1992 and want to support organizations that help homeless veterans….I am a Vietnam veteran (Marines) who was once homeless, and I can tell you that it isn’t easy to start your life over after combat. .”
*Sigh*
“it isn’t easy to start your life over after combat”
The majority of veterans just pick up where they left off. Go back to school. Learn a trade. Make excellent citizens and volunteer for stuff no one else will. They become leaders and mentors. Protectors of the weak and innocent.
You can’t start over Jerry if you never started in the first place.
Another Pat, wasn’t there another phony from Massachusetts awhile back?
Ah…hmmm, his name is just on the tip of my tongue. Bill…no, Wayne…no, John…?
Yeah, John something or other.
I believe his last name rhymes with Scary….
Anyhow, this guy said he was a Viet Vet and I believe, according to him, was on a really fast Navy boat and was given a Silver Star & three Purple Hearts.
Hmmm…. the name will come to me eventually. (grin)
Most of us already guessed it. C’mon, catch up…
That would be Skerry Kerry aka Lurch, the terror of the My Khong river. He followed the Terror of Tuzla as SOS.
I wonder what Jerry “Years in Combat” Harrell’s rap sheet looks like. It appears that he got himself addicted to some sort of illicit substance years ago, which well explains a thing or two, and strongly suggests to me what it was his Dad couldn’t cope with and why combat-proven Jerry ended up on the streets.
Hey! If Tufts needs a fact checker, there may be one in the neighborhood looking for a job.
Apparently, the author of that article (Fina Short) is a Features Editor for that rag.
She’s a sophomore and majoring in International Relations with a “Chinese minor” (whatever the hell a “Chinese minor” is).
She hasn’t taken the course of journalism or fact checking yet, so go easy on her.
A Chinese minor is any Chinese person under 18. Hope that helps………
That was my initial thought – then I was left wondering about the other possibilities (i.e. Chinese language; history; economics; basketweaving, and so on…)
If she’s raising a Chink kid while attending college, good on her I suppose.
“Spare Change”…a real Pulitzer generator
When I worked patrol, I would run across these kinds of fucksticks with the “Vietnam Vet” begging signs. First question, how old are you~if they were younger than me then no way did they go to Vietnam. Next question~What was your MOS/NEC and where did you go to bootcamp. Last question~Are you going to give me that sign or am I going to take it from you.
I gathered quite a collection of signs.
This is why I rarely give anyone money. The new thing is to parade the kids out there with them. I notice most of them have iPhones, and at least here in Colorado, they are close to the pot stores.
Beggars with either cigarettes and/or iPhones… Just no.
Balderdash, balderdash, balderdash.
My cat can come up with better combat stories. She has a mouse kill score of three to date. This twerp can’t hold a smoke flare to her.
He needs to be introduced to your panhandling skills. As in “beaten with an iron skillet”.
Hah! That is too funny!!!
The question is how do we get this jerk to stop this nonsense?
Mine has five birds, full size, two baby birds, a half dozen Geico Geckos and a couple of baby black snakes….
He is damn sure more combat effective than this Jerrry Harrell professing to be a combat Veteran but was never in the military.
In other words, this Jerry Harrell fuckstick has never served a day in any military organization and is no doubt a convict and drug addict/alcoholic so don’t give him any money.
That’s right Jerry Harrell of the Boston area is a useless slimebag Stolen Valor queen and never left home during the Vietnam War where 58,262 Young Americans died so he could stand on the street corner and tell lies about his bravery…
We have organized gangs of panhandlers who rotate through different intersections. One of their tactics is to hang out with a dog. It’s great to see them run to my car with that look of anticipation only to get a big dog biscuit. The others get “Jesus Loves You” pamphlets. Just doing my part to help.
I hear dog biscuits are loaded with protein. At least they will keep their strength up.
I give them my business card and tell them to show up the next day and I’ll have a day job for them at $10/hr doing simple manual tasks like loading cartons with product and placing them on a pallet.
After 20 years of doing this I’ve never had anyone come the next day to collect on the job…..I wonder why?
Dang, that’s a good one. Hack seeks your permission to replicate that.
He must have known this guy, if he spent all that time in shoot-shoot-bang-bang. Must have been all over the place as Agent Orange, Agent Green, Agent Fuschia. It was hard, standing in water up to his ankles at Sang Dong and Dang Bang, getting fleas from the dogs of war.