{"id":48744,"date":"2014-05-25T10:23:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T14:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=48744"},"modified":"2014-05-25T10:23:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T14:23:17","slug":"harold-kauffman-another-liar-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=48744","title":{"rendered":"Harold Kauffman; another liar in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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AverageNCO sends us another link to a liar<\/a>, Harold Kauffman, in Tampa Bay who was outed by his VFW post. Kauffman had been telling the tale of his two Purple Heart medals and his Bronze Star Medal which turned out to be false;<\/p>\n

Polk County VFW Post Commander Gerald Menard said they investigated Harold Kauffman\u2019s background after he bragged about having two purple hearts and a bronze star.<\/p>\n

After searching through military records they found out Kauffman was lying.<\/p>\n

Kauffman did serve in the military but admits he lied to veterans, his family and to the state when he got a purple heart specialty license plate.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Lake Wales Mayor Eugene Fultz, who is also a veteran, said he\u2019s shocked at the accusations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am really outdone with how many people are trying to pass themselves off as deserving veterans of certain benefits,\u201d Fultz said.<\/p>\n

Kauffman apologized about the lies he told.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so sorry I lied about a purple heart and I lied about a bronze star, and I apologize to everybody in the nation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

When asked why he did it, he blamed it on drinking. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lake Wales and the Polk County VFW, you might remember, was where they found Ed Cameron<\/a>, the former VFW post commander who had lied about his medals before they plastered his visage on the side of a bus. <\/p>\n

As soon as I saw the picture of him without a shirt on, I knew he was guilty of something. I watch “Cops”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AverageNCO sends us another link to a liar, Harold Kauffman, in Tampa Bay who was outed by his VFW post. Kauffman had been telling the tale of his two Purple Heart medals and his Bronze Star Medal which turned out to be false; Polk County VFW Post Commander Gerald Menard said they investigated Harold Kauffman\u2019s […]<\/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-48744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-cGc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48744","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=48744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}