{"id":18445,"date":"2010-04-07T06:45:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T11:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18445"},"modified":"2010-04-07T07:17:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T12:17:44","slug":"phony-to-be-inducted-into-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18445","title":{"rendered":"Phony to be inducted into Hall of Fame?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is Dick Stoops, a Korean War veteran who is about to be inducted into the Kansas National Guard<\/a> Hall of Fame, but we have some questions about him. In this article, he claims he was a POW and that he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. However the folks at POW Net<\/a> say that he’s not on the list of Korean War POWs or the list of DSC recipients.<\/p>\n

In the article, he claims he made three combat jumps with the 187th Regimental Combat Team, however, the 187th RCT only made two combat jumps during the war – the sum total of all of the combat jumps of the entire war. Stoops also claims he spent three years fighting in Korea, but the overseas bars in this picture indicate only one year.<\/del> Speaking of his sleeve, I’m pretty sure the Pathfinder Badge has never been worn on the sleeve.<\/p>\n

While we’re on his uniform, in the article, he says he was a PFC in 1950, yet the school from which he would have earned those glider wings closed two years before that. He did get it right that the 2d Ranger Company was attached to the 187th RCT, so he’s wearing the right scroll, but there’s so much wrong with his story, it makes me wonder what records the board for the Hall of Fame are reviewing.<\/p>\n

The folks at POW Net wondered about that, too, and called the museum. The museum staff can’t remember requesting records and thought his uniform looked a little strange. According to Mary, the Chairman said “I would have thought the Guard checked all that.” Mary thinks that there may be forgery involved, but she applied for a FOIA, so we’ll wait for the outcome of that. Right now we just have questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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