{"id":75294,"date":"2017-10-11T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75294"},"modified":"2017-10-11T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T16:50:00","slug":"patrick-mandeville-was-not-a-green-beret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75294","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Mandeville was not a Green Beret"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Someone sent us this article from the Twin Cities, Pennsylvania Morning Times<\/a> in which they report that a local group presented a “Quilt of Valor” to Patrick Mandeville for his service in Vietnam;<\/p>\n

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For 1969 Waverly High School graduate Patrick Mandeville — who served in Vietnam as a Green Beret — this honor came in the form of a patriotic quilt, made by Sharon Slater from Quilts of Valor Foundation (QOV)….[Annmarie] Allaire said Mandeville earned a Purple Heart, Silver Star and two Bronze Stars for his service, which lasted from 1969 to 1972.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, in my opinion, after looking at his records, he certainly deserves a “Quilt of Valor”, he did serve with the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam from December 1970 – December 1971, he was assigned to Hotel Company Rangers after several months with 5\/7th Cavalry. To be a “Green Beret”, he’d need at least some parachute training, but that’s not in the file. He does have an Arcom with a valor device and a single Bronze Star Medal, but no Purple Hearts or a Silver Star;<\/p>\n

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Do with this what you want – he didn’t make any claims directly in the story, but he didn’t correct the author, either. The ladies had to get that information from somewhere. I’m just correcting the historical record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone sent us this article from the Twin Cities, Pennsylvania Morning Times in which they report that a local group presented a “Quilt of Valor” to Patrick Mandeville for his service in Vietnam; For 1969 Waverly High School graduate Patrick Mandeville — who served in Vietnam as a Green Beret — this honor came in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-who-knows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Patrick-Mandeville-quilt.jpg?fit=761%2C755&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-jAq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75294","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=75294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}