{"id":23880,"date":"2011-06-14T09:33:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T13:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23880"},"modified":"2011-06-14T09:33:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T13:33:10","slug":"doug-sterner-a-heros-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23880","title":{"rendered":"Doug Sterner; a hero&#8217;s hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/protecting-stolen-valor\/2011\/06\/13\/AGbSrgTH_allComments.html#weighIn\">Washington Post<\/a> did an interview with our buddy Doug Sterner. I call him a hero&#8217;s hero because he&#8217;s one of the few who stand up for the real heroes in spite of the criticism against him. <\/p>\n<p>In this video, he explains why he does what he does. What he doesn&#8217;t mention is that he started in the business of hunting phonies when he caught someone who stole the valor of one of his friends who Sterner lost in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" width=\"500px\" height=\"333px\" src=\"http:\/\/specials.washingtonpost.com\/mv\/embed\/?title=Protecting%20stolen%20valor&#038;stillURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Frf%2Fimage_606w%2F2010-2019%2FWashingtonPost%2F2011%2F06%2F13%2FNational-Enterprise%2FVideos%2F06112011-1v%2F06112011-1v.jpg&#038;flvURL=%2Fmedia%2F2011%2F06%2F11%2F06112011-1v.m4v&#038;width=500&#038;height=333&#038;autoStart=0&#038;clickThru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnational%2Fprotecting-stolen-valor%2F2011%2F06%2F13%2FAGbSrgTH_video.html\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post did an interview with our buddy Doug Sterner. I call him a hero&#8217;s hero because he&#8217;s one of the few who stand up for the real heroes in spite of the criticism against him. In this video, he explains why he does what he does. What he doesn&#8217;t mention is that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-6da","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}