{"id":60242,"date":"2015-06-06T09:30:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T13:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60242"},"modified":"2015-06-06T09:14:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T13:14:47","slug":"richard-currey-author-phony-vietnam-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60242","title":{"rendered":"Richard Currey; author, phony Vietnam vet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Richard Currey<\/a> is an author who writes books about his experiences in the Vietnam War as a Fleet Marine Force Navy corpsman in Vietnam. His first book of poetry was titled “Crossing Over; The Vietnam Stories” in the late 70s, then he wrote “Fatal Light” in the 80s about a young fellow who leaves West Virginia and goes to Vietnam, like Currey did in the 60s. Currey writes about Vietnam veterans in the Vietnam Veterans Association’s Online Veteran<\/a>. They reciprocate by excerpting his novels<\/a>. <\/p>\n

On his website<\/a>, Currey has this as his biography;<\/p>\n

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

Jungle warfare and special operations, huh? <\/p>\n

West Virginia Wesleyan College lists his biography<\/a> among West Virginia authors;<\/p>\n

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

Well, his records tell a marginally different story. He was a corpsman in the Navy and he was assigned to a Fleet Marine Force, but not in Vietnam. In fact, he never left the Continental United States. He spent some time working at the hospital in Quantico, Virginia and then he went to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina where he joined a Fleet Marine Force, but it looks like he worked in their clinic and never left the US. There are no Vietnam service medals in his records, in fact, all there is the National Defense Service Medal, commonly known as the “Fire Guard Ribbon”, because that’s a duty everyone pulls and it’s a ribbon that everyone gets.<\/p>\n

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

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

Nothing to be ashamed of, really. Currey served when many Americans were avoiding service. But, then he had to go and make shit up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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