{"id":68594,"date":"2016-10-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68594"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:30:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:30:20","slug":"ralph-ticcioni-phony-d-day-paratrooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68594","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Ticcioni; phony D-Day paratrooper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ralph Ticcioni a Wisconsin World War II veteran has been telling folks for years about his parachute drop into Normandy on D-Day with the 82d Airborne Division. His memories are pretty vivid like they were when he told the story to Milwaukee Journal<\/a> Sentinel reporters<\/a> earlier this year;<\/p>\n

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He even had folks convinced at Defense.Gov<\/a> when they interviewed him.<\/p>\n

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He fooled the Army.mil<\/a> people, too, as well as the French and his surgeon;<\/p>\n

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And the local news station<\/a>;<\/p>\n

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