{"id":59951,"date":"2015-05-21T08:30:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T12:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59951"},"modified":"2015-05-21T07:02:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T11:02:45","slug":"ron-stone-admits-deceit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59951","title":{"rendered":"Ron Stone admits deceit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=57633\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57633\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ron-Stone-13-182x300.jpg?resize=182%2C300\" alt=\"Ron Stone (13)\" width=\"182\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ron-Stone-13.jpg?resize=182%2C300&amp;ssl=1 182w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ron-Stone-13.jpg?w=193&amp;ssl=1 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kten.com\/story\/29120723\/special-report-veteran-admits-to-fabricating-service-awards\">KTEN<\/a> did a report on the phony Vietnam veteran Ron Stone, who <a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57632\">we discussed in January<\/a>, in which he admits that the medals he claimed to earn were a lie. Stone continues to cling to the lies about his service, though;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We took our findings to the author himself outside his Denison home<\/p>\n<p>KTEN:Why did you decide to do all this to begin with? Was it to sell books? <\/p>\n<p>Stone: I was trying to tell a story.<\/p>\n<p>KTEN: Why couldn&#8217;t you tell the true story?<\/p>\n<p>STONE: It was a fictional book. <\/p>\n<p>Despite what he said, the last page of his book reads &#8220;The events and dates of the book are true to the best of my knowledge and recollections and are stated without reservations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stone eventually admitted to lying about parts of the book.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I made up some of the medals,\u201d he said. \u201cI am deeply ashamed of it.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He said the fake awards provided an ego boost, but maintains at least some parts of the book are true, but classified.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government would not let me talk about what I did in the service. They stole my military history,\u201d he said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the most disgusting part of the interview;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Stone said he would pull his book, but it was still available online at last check.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All I did was lie,\u201d Stone said \u201cAnd there&#8217;s no law against lying.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No remorse, the only regret that Stone has is that he was caught. There doesn&#8217;t need to be a law to be a decent person, you POS.<\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/kten.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=248732;hostDomain=www.kten.com;playerWidth=500;playerHeight=300;isShowIcon=true;clipId=11519609;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kten.com\" title=\"KTEN.com - No One Gets You Closer\">KTEN.com &#8211; No One Gets You Closer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KTEN did a report on the phony Vietnam veteran Ron Stone, who we discussed in January, in which he admits that the medals he claimed to earn were a lie. Stone continues to cling to the lies about his service, though; We took our findings to the author himself outside his Denison home KTEN:Why did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57633,"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-59951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ron-Stone-13.jpg?fit=193%2C317&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-fAX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59951","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=59951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}