{"id":56826,"date":"2014-12-04T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56826"},"modified":"2014-12-04T08:19:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T13:19:17","slug":"larry-barr-phony-pow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56826","title":{"rendered":"Larry Barr; phony POW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=56828\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56828\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Larry-Barr-257x300.jpg?resize=257%2C300\" alt=\"Larry Barr\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Larry-Barr.jpg?resize=257%2C300&amp;ssl=1 257w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Larry-Barr.jpg?resize=285%2C333&amp;ssl=1 285w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Larry-Barr.jpg?w=383&amp;ssl=1 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, in the comments of another phony POW, there was some discussion about this Larry Barr fellow. <\/p>\n<p>Seems that we had his records already from when he appeared in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/content\/vietnam-veterans-reflect-on-obama-cabinet-picks-kerry-hagel\/1594013.html\">Voice of America article<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Larry Varr stands at the Vietnam War Memorial and reflects on the comrades he left behind. \u201cSee, there\u2019s two of my friends on that wall right there,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>Those names are just a few among the thousands of the fallen at the Vietnam War Memorial. Varr spent a year in Vietnam as an Air Force sergeant and then as a prisoner of war. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/english.share.voanews.eu\/flashembed.aspx?t=vid&amp;id=1594519&amp;w=500&amp;h=300&amp;skin=embeded\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They call him Varr in the article, but the picture of him in his Air Force uniform has a nameplate with &#8220;Barr&#8221; on it.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, Barr points to his &#8220;friend&#8217;s&#8221; name, John O&#8217;Neal Rucker who was an Air Force Sergeant killed when his barracks were rocketed on January 27th, 1973 &#8211; five years after Larry left Vietnam and a year after Larry finished his Reserve commitment. In fact, Rucker joined the Air Force in 1970 &#8211; they didn&#8217;t spend anytime in Vietnam together.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=56827\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56827\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Larry-Barr-FOIA-300x287.jpg?resize=300%2C287\" alt=\"Larry Barr FOIA\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Larry-Barr-FOIA.jpg?resize=300%2C287&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Larry-Barr-FOIA.jpg?resize=347%2C333&amp;ssl=1 347w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Larry-Barr-FOIA.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=56829\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56829\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Larry-Barr-2-1-300x114.jpg?resize=300%2C114\" alt=\"Larry Barr 2-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Larry-Barr-2-1.jpg?resize=300%2C114&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Larry-Barr-2-1.jpg?resize=500%2C191&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Larry-Barr-2-1.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, Lar was in Vietnam (Aug &#8217;67 &#8211; Jul &#8217;68), but he wasn&#8217;t a POW. Well unless the Viet Cong were holding their POWs at the MAC Air Terminal in Dover AFB, Delaware.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56815&#038;cpage=1#comment-2294261\">Intel POG<\/a> was the one who brought Barr up in the comments yesterday because Barr was Tweeted in this from his state delegate;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=56830\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56830\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Barr-trolling-state-delegate-300x297.jpg?resize=300%2C297\" alt=\"Barr trolling state delegate\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Barr-trolling-state-delegate.jpg?resize=300%2C297&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Barr-trolling-state-delegate.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Barr-trolling-state-delegate.jpg?resize=335%2C333&amp;ssl=1 335w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Barr-trolling-state-delegate.jpg?w=561&amp;ssl=1 561w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The only Barr who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtic.mil\/dpmo\/vietnam\/reports\/documents\/pmsea_info_b363.htm\">DPMO lists<\/a> is John Frederick Barr, from Hope Arkansas a Navy O4 who was lost Oct. 19, 1967. His remains were returned in 1995. And he&#8217;s one of the countless reasons that we do this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, in the comments of another phony POW, there was some discussion about this Larry Barr fellow. 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