{"id":19216,"date":"2010-05-24T07:54:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T12:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19216"},"modified":"2010-05-24T07:54:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T12:54:29","slug":"another-stolen-valor-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19216","title":{"rendered":"Another Stolen Valor Politician"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Doug Sterner sent us this link to an article about yet another politician<\/a> who claims to have been something he isn’t. This one is mayor of a Chicago suburb;<\/p>\n

In his campaign literature, Calumet Park Mayor Joseph DuPar touted his decorated service in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n

“As a Sergeant in the military, I received the Medal of Honor with (4) Bronze Stars for my Leadership,” his campaign flier states.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

DuPar’s military records, which the Tribune obtained from the National Archives and Records Administration, do not list the Medal of Honor, the military’s highest decoration.<\/p>\n

Victoria Kueck, director of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, confirmed DuPar is not a Medal of Honor recipient.<\/p>\n

“We only have 91 living recipients,” and there’s an archived file on each one since the Civil War, Kueck said.<\/p>\n

DuPar, 69, declined to show his medals or discuss them, and his attorney did not respond to requests to set up a meeting to view DuPar’s medals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The fact that DuPar refuses to answer questions on the subject shows just how little he, or his lawyers, value true valor. As the citizns uncover more information about their mayor, I’m pretty sure they’ll find other instances in which he committed fraud and cost them real money<\/p>\n

And this problem is reaching epidemic proportions. There are promises of revelations on some of the cases we’ve highlighted in the recent past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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