{"id":60400,"date":"2015-06-17T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60400"},"modified":"2015-06-16T15:26:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T19:26:53","slug":"jon-d-showers-another-phony-beirut-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60400","title":{"rendered":"Jon D. Showers; another phony Beirut Marine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Some Vietnam veterans sent us some work on this Jon D. Showers fellow from Reading, Pennsylvania who founded a group of Vietnam re-enactors. In some articles from the local media<\/a> he claims that he was a Marine Captain and stationed in Beirut. In verbal conversations, it’s been reported that he claims to be Force Recon. Here’s a short bio from the Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

The picture above was taken from that article. Yeah, I noticed that the crossed rifles were on wrong, too. But he straightened that out in subsequent pictures;<\/p>\n

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

And in other pictures he didn’t even mess with it;<\/p>\n

\"Showers,<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

He claims that service dog of his is descended from an actual Vietnam War service dog, you know because we all keep such meticulous records of mutts and which mutt is descended from which mutt.<\/p>\n

\"Showers,<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Remember when soldiers in Vietnam wore Army black berets with the Army flash? Yeah, me neither. But cool picture with Wild Bill Guarnere;<\/p>\n

\"Showers,<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Anyway, the anticlimactic upshot is that the Marine Corps, when asked about Jon D. Showers by his social security number responded “Who?”<\/p>\n

\"Showers,<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

So, I’d ask him for proof that his step-father died in Vietnam, and I’d love to see proof that his dog was descended from a dog that served in Vietnam. You don’t have to be a veteran to be a re-enactor, but, then, you should never lie about your military career ever, no matter what your job is.<\/p>\n

But, here’s Jon and the boys in action;<\/p>\n