{"id":21546,"date":"2010-12-16T07:25:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T11:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21546"},"modified":"2010-12-16T07:28:05","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T11:28:05","slug":"american-legion-joins-in-stolen-valor-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21546","title":{"rendered":"American Legion joins in Stolen Valor battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

SFGate reports<\/a> this morning that the American Legion has filed a friend-of-the-court brief on the Richard Strandlof Stolen Valor case;<\/p>\n

The American Legion decided to intervene in Colorado because prosecutors have a stronger case there, said Mark Seavey, the group’s media manager.<\/p>\n

Seavey said the Colorado case also is “a little more germane to us” because Strandlof claimed to be an advocate for veterans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, and I’m just sitting here thinking where VoteVets and IVAW are in this case. After all, those two organizations had put Strandlof in front of their organizations to spread their respective messages. VoteVets used him in their political ads in Colorado. Stranloff made them look silly while they discussed whether they should admit that one of their stars was a complete fraud. You’d think they’d have a dog in this fight.<\/p>\n

IVAW had countless videos with Strandlof talking about his imaginary service and the horrors of dreaming about combat. IVAW had more personal contact with him and might have been more likely to notice that the finger he had shot off was still there and the pate in which he claimed he had a steel plate was scar-less. In fact, at the Winter Soldier hearings, Strandlof was in charge of their PTSD clinic, so someone had to have had contact with him and grounds to testify to the damage that he did while living out his dream as a gay Marine captain.<\/p>\n

But, then if IVAW came out against lying about their service, they’d be smearing at least half of their membership, but only beginning with the ones who put on a T-shirt that calls them “Iraq Veterans” Against the War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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