{"id":62813,"date":"2015-11-16T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62813"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:54","slug":"leonard-wright-phony-pow-vietnam-war-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62813","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Wright; phony POW, phony Vietnam War veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Someone sent us this guy, Leonard Wright, who founded Project Freedom Ranch<\/a>. As you can see from the picture, he claims to have been a member of the 1st Cavalry Division. Here’s his bio from the organization’s website;<\/p>\n

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

Unfortunately, he has recently changed that bio before I could get a screen shot (but then Mary found one). It used to read like this;<\/p>\n

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

Len has been a resident of West Palm Beach Florida for the past 30 years. He is currently retired; former owner of Executive Limousines of the Palm Beaches. Len was Educated at Moody Bible Institute, graduating 1961. He served in the US Army, 1962-1965. He was captured, & tortured for 11 days in Vietnam; prior to being rescued by the 3rd Div. Marine Corps. <\/strong>Len continued his education at Columbia International University, Columbia, SC. 1971, BA degree and then Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Masters Degree.1973. He is a cancer survivor. 20 year member of Christ Fellowship Church in Palm Beach Gardens and currently active in children’s ministry there. His love for others and desire to see healing of fellow soldiers has led him to making this dream a reality. The story of how this dream is coming into a reality is that of which movies are made… stay tuned!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He did serve in the Army from 1962-1965. He was a chaplain’s assistant in the 611th Aircraft Maintenance Battalion in the 11th Airborne Division when they were at Fort Benning, Georgia. That division reorganized and became the 1st Cavalry Division on June 29th, 1965 and deployed to Vietnam in August, but by that time, Ol’ Len here was in the 197th Infantry Brigade at their Headquarters Company, still at Fort Benning, GA, so he wasn’t in the 1st Cav Division, and he didn’t become a POW of the North Vietnamese and he wasn’t tortured for 11 days, except by the knowledge that he didn’t deploy with the 1st Cav. Len left the Army in October, 1965. His records;<\/p>\n

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

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

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

So, his bio doesn’t say that he’s a POW now, and I just want to keep it that way. He should have no problem with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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