{"id":30996,"date":"2012-07-23T10:31:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T14:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30996"},"modified":"2012-07-23T12:49:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T16:49:14","slug":"stolen-valor-happens-on-twitter-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30996","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Valor Happens on Twitter Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t really go on Twitter to find phonies at all. I just happened to see someone retweet (basically copy and republish what was said to the “twitter-uninitated”) something from a user with the name “FormerGrunt”<\/a>. I thought, well.. let’s take a look at the Former Grunt.<\/p>\n

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Something I noticed right off the bat is the profile photo. I’ve seen that photo before. Quick search and found it: SFC Daniel Crabtree<\/a>.\u00a0He’s a Special Forces soldier that was killed in Iraq in 2006. Quick lineup and flip in Photoshop and we have an exact match.<\/p>\n

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So I decide to ask him about it… but since he’s a secret squirrel, he’s fuzzy on details.<\/p>\n

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So that’s not him in the photo (no shit) but don’t worry… he’s sent me a legit photo to prove himself:<\/p>\n

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My last tweet to him: “how do you know Daniel Crabtree exactly?” has yet to receive a response. And he was just so talkative. I’ll keep an eye on this fucktard and see where it goes.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/strong>: Looks like we need to do a real-time Twitter play-by-play on this guy. I decided to send him a last ditch tweet… which then got his (most likely bulletproof) panties in a wad. Here’s the continued exchange:<\/p>\n

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\u00a0UPDATE 2<\/strong>: He’s responded via tumblr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I am writing this because some shit will not fit in 140 characters.<\/p>\n

My previous avatar on Twitter that I have been using for quite a few months was a Photoshopped image of SFC Daniel Crabtree, a special forces soldier who was KIA in Iraq back in 2006.<\/p>\n

I used his image because it fit what I wanted in an avatar, and I also used it to keep my account anonymous for work reasons. After being bombarded from an asshole from a military-parody website today, I have changed it back to one of my own images (although still one that shouldn\u2019t be able to identify me).<\/p>\n

For the record, no, I never knew SFC Crabtree. He was a hero who died serving his country, while I am just a grunt who managed to make it home relatively unscathed.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll also point out that the only time this\u00a0dispute<\/em>\u00a0got under my skin was when I saw the words \u201cstolen-valor\u201d come into play. That is an issue I take seriously. There is no more despicable form of human than one who will pretend to claim a military honor they never earned.<\/p>\n

So, for those concerned for whatever reason, the avatar has changed (and i is my own image).<\/p>\n

For those who want to continue fighting on the internet kindly go fuck yourself. I\u2019ve already wasted enough of my morning with you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With all the stolen valor fucks running around in this world… why would you get mad after being legitimately questioned about your service? But hell… he’s legit.<\/p>\n

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I don’t really go on Twitter to find phonies at all. I just happened to see someone retweet (basically copy and republish what was said to the “twitter-uninitated”) something from a user with the name “FormerGrunt”. I thought, well.. let’s take a look at the Former Grunt. Something I noticed right off the bat is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shitbags","category-stolen-valor-act"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-83W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30996","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\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}