{"id":16013,"date":"2009-12-09T16:17:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T21:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=16013"},"modified":"2009-12-09T18:33:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T23:33:52","slug":"phony-marine-in-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16013","title":{"rendered":"Phony Marine in Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/2009\/12\/marine_faker_nelson_120809w\/\">phony pleaded guilty<\/a> in California yesterday of making claims to service he never had;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Kenneth Jerome Nelson was once celebrated as a war hero and the unofficial caretaker of a monument dedicated to Vietnam veterans in the shadow of the California State Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he\u2019s known as a liar.<\/p>\n<p>The veterans activist pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court in Sacramento to wearing a Silver Star that had not been awarded to him, a misdemeanor. Nelson, 60, will be sentenced March 1 to a violation of the federal Stolen Valor Act, which prohibits wearing unearned military decorations, authorities said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, he enlisted in 1977 and was booted a few months later without graduating from basic training. One thing I don&#8217;t understand is that he&#8217;s 60 years old, which means he was prime draft age during Vietnam &#8211; how&#8217;d he dodge that bullet? And if he wanted to be a Marine, why&#8217;d he wait until 1977 &#8211; the year Jimmy Carter pardoned draft dodgers.<\/p>\n<p>That reminds me, I have one that I&#8217;m looking at on a tip from COB6 &#8211; does anyone know where I can get a list of <del datetime=\"2009-12-09T23:30:43+00:00\">Silver Star<\/del> Bronze Star w\/V  awardees from Grenada? This guy has orders and has it in his records, but he was a clerk. How many clerks in the 82d CG&#8217;s staff got <del datetime=\"2009-12-09T23:30:43+00:00\">Silver Stars<\/del> Bronze Stars w\/Vs in Grenada?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another phony pleaded guilty in California yesterday of making claims to service he never had; Kenneth &hellip; <a title=\"Phony Marine in Sacramento\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16013\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Phony Marine in Sacramento<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16013","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}