{"id":35213,"date":"2013-04-21T08:15:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T12:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35213"},"modified":"2013-04-21T08:15:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T12:15:08","slug":"taking-stolen-valor-to-the-grave-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35213","title":{"rendered":"Taking Stolen Valor to the grave"},"content":{"rendered":"

AverageNCO sent these two obituaries to Mary a few weeks ago and she sends us their records today. The first is Leslie Bernhardt of Oregon<\/a>. The obit says;<\/p>\n

Les Bernhardt passed away March 27, 2013.<\/p>\n

He graduated in 1969 from Mapleton High School, and then enlisted in the U.S. Army, where he eventually became a door gunner. He fought through two tours in Vietnam and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery in action.<\/p>\n

He was also the recipient of the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart and a Vietnamese Ranger Ribbon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His FOIA says that, yes he made ONE tour of Vietnam and another to Germany, no Silver Star, no Bronze Star, no Purple Heart;<\/p>\n

\"Leslie<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Leslie<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

The second obituary is about Howard J. Brinkerhoff in Upstate, New York. The obit says;<\/p>\n

Howard J. Brinkerhoff, 65, passed away on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at the Stratton VA Medical Center in Albany after a long illness. Born in Oceanside on April 14, 1947, he was son of the late Howard T. and Catherine Schaffer Brinkerhoff. Howard was raised and educated there, and enlisted in the Marines at age 17. He served in combat in Vietnam and was a Prisoner of War, receiving the Navy Cross and the Purple Heart. Howard was a life member of the VFW. He resided in Greene and Schoharie counties since discharge from the Marines. Howard was a man of honor and distinction, and he will be greatly missed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His FOIA says that he deployed to the Dominican Republic in 1965 before going to Vietnam, but no indication that he was ever a POW, no Navy Cross, but there is a Purple Heart and an Air Medal;<\/p>\n

\"Howard<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

I really hate these because the only people we can cause pain are the bereaved families, however, it reminds the phonies who have been bragging all their lives about their phony service to come clean while they’re alive so that the last memory families have of their departed is not that they were bald faced liars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AverageNCO sent these two obituaries to Mary a few weeks ago and she sends us their records today. The first is Leslie Bernhardt of Oregon. The obit says; Les Bernhardt passed away March 27, 2013. He graduated in 1969 from Mapleton High School, and then enlisted in the U.S. Army, where he eventually became a […]<\/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-35213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-99X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35213","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=35213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}