{"id":64005,"date":"2016-01-25T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64005"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:48","slug":"lester-tee-black-phony-vietnam-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64005","title":{"rendered":"Lester Tee Black; phony Vietnam veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The folks at Military Phonies<\/a> send us their work on this Lester Black fellow in Dublin, Georgia. He claims to have been a “Green Beret” in the war in Vietnam. He did two tours, he claims. The experience left him scarred and he turned to drugs and alcohol. Here’s a local newspaper article where he tells his tragic story;<\/p>\n

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

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

Poor guy. Well, since he’s being introduced to you here, you probably already know that Les is being less than truthful with us. He wasn’t special forces, he was an artilleryman, a mechanic and a radio operator at Fort Benning, Georgia, and then an artilleryman in the Netherlands. 9 million American served during the Vietnam War, only 2 and a half million served within the borders of Vietnam. Lester Tee Black did serve during the war like many of his generation wouldn’t, but he never went anywhere near Vietnam – through no fault of his own. If he had substance abuse problems, he probably didn’t get them as a result of his service or the horrors of war.<\/p>\n

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

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

He pays penance for his sins by volunteering as an escort for veterans who die at the Carl Vinson VA Hospital in Dublin, according to the Macon Telegraph<\/a>, but he should take off that vest;<\/p>\n

\"Lester<\/a>><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The folks at Military Phonies send us their work on this Lester Black fellow in Dublin, Georgia. He claims to have been a “Green Beret” in the war in Vietnam. He did two tours, he claims. The experience left him scarred and he turned to drugs and alcohol. Here’s a local newspaper article where he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Lester-Black4a.jpg?fit=305%2C343&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-gEl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64005","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=64005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}