{"id":14507,"date":"2009-09-21T06:33:45","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T11:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14507"},"modified":"2009-09-21T06:37:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T11:37:25","slug":"stolen-valor-in-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14507","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Valor in Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While apparently US Attorneys are too busy, or just don&#8217;t give a crap*, the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090921\/ap_on_re_us\/us_hero_hoax\">Marine Corps isn&#8217;t happy <\/a>with Stolen Valor cases one bit&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SABILLASVILLE, Md. \u2013 On a sultry day in July 2008, Marine Sgt. David W. Budwah strode in his battle fatigues to the front of a picnic pavilion to tell three dozen young boys what he did during the war.<\/p>\n<p>With his clear gaze, rigid posture and muscled, tattooed arms, Budwah looked every inch the hero he claimed to be. He said he was on his second tour of duty in Afghanistan when a homemade grenade exploded, wounding his face and arm when he dove to shield a buddy from the blast.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Quick, someone sign him up as a VoteVets Diarist, he has all the qualifications of Duncan, and just as much to back it up as Matthew Alexander&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the Marines say Budwah is a liar, a fraud and a thief. They are court-martialing the 34-year-old Springhill, La., native, alleging he was never in Afghanistan, wasn&#8217;t wounded and didn&#8217;t earn the combat medals he wore \u2014 or the many privileges he enjoyed.<\/p>\n<p>Budwah joined the Marines in October 1999 and spent nearly all of the next six years with a radio communications unit in Okinawa, Japan, according to the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Va., where Budwah has been stationed since February 2006.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those Combat RTO&#8217;s from Okinawa sure are tough dudes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>*I am being told that the US Attorney for Colorado is not going to press charges against Rick Duncan for Stolen Valor.  I will be discussing this at length in the future, but that is the word that was passed down to me.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While apparently US Attorneys are too busy, or just don&#8217;t give a crap*, the Marine Corps &hellip; <a title=\"Stolen Valor in Maryland\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14507\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stolen Valor in Maryland<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}