{"id":21146,"date":"2010-11-12T08:05:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T12:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21146"},"modified":"2010-11-12T08:05:01","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T12:05:01","slug":"the-rent-is-too-damn-high-party-candidates-stolen-valor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21146","title":{"rendered":"The “Rent Is Too Damn High Party” candidate’s Stolen Valor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You probably remember the NY gubernatorial candidate for the “Rent Is Too Damn High Party” Jimmy McMillan who made a splash during the debates for that office last month. He claimed he was a Vietnam veteran, stationed there two years, and that he’d been awarded three bronze stars. Many of you emailed and asked me to get his his records, so I asked our friends at POW Network to help us out and this is what they came up with;<\/p>\n

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Yeah, I know it says James McMiller in the name line, but, believe me, the POW Net folks search for these guys by their SSN and their current addresses. This is the guy. Here’s a quote from the debate<\/a> last month;<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m a war vet,” McMillan said. “Don\u2019t forget I was in Vietnam for two and half years and I have three Bronze Stars, but the chemicals of Agent Orange — dioxin and a lot of other chemicals mixed up — I would get sick. When I get home tonight, I know I\u2019m not going to be able to breathe if I take them off. It could be psychological, I don\u2019t know, but I just put em on and wear them anyway.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As far as his claim of three Bronze Star Medals is concerned, he’s lying. The only three bronze stars I see are devices on his Vietnam Service Medal which mark three campaigns he was involved in – they’re not the bronze stars he meant. You probably remember Joseph DuPar, the mayor near Chicago<\/a>, who claimed the same during his campaign.<\/p>\n

If he had said that he’d been in Vietnam for two years, I’d have given him a pass, but he said “two and a half years” and his service was a year and a half; November ’66 until June ’68; 19 months which is almost a year short of “two and a half years”.<\/p>\n

According to everything I can find, during the term of his service in Vietnam, 15 awards of the Air Medal wasn’t irregular. The Army has devices that denote many more awards of the medal because of the danger of flying on missions in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

His record looks pretty distinguished, I don’t why he felt the had to embellish. It looks like he reenlisted when his draft years were finished. But then he was discharged as an E-2 – so there must have been something towards the end of his service that affected the character of his service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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