{"id":22210,"date":"2011-02-07T10:19:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T14:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22210"},"modified":"2011-02-07T10:19:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T14:19:18","slug":"stolen-valor-clown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22210","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Valor clown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill Wenzel, once a post commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8036, pleaded guilty to altering his DD214 and got off with 50 hours of community service<\/a>;<\/p>\n

On Wenzel\u2019s military discharge papers, known as DD-214, additional merits and awards were typed onto the form with a different typewriter than had been used for the rest of the form, according to the anonymous whistleblowers.
\nAccording to his DD-214, Wenzel was stationed in Okinawa, Japan in 1972 and worked in a warehouse, where he supposedly earned two Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star and, one of the most coveted military medals, a Silver Star.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That must’ve been one tough warehouse.<\/p>\n

Our friends at GlockTalk wrote last year that the controversy pretty much destroyed Wenzel’s VFW Post;<\/p>\n

Wenzel was asked by one of his detractors to bring his medals into the post and Wenzel reportedly has not shown his face since.<\/p>\n

These allegations have resulted in some VFW members being physically assaulted and some members quitting the post, citing a desire not to be a part of a \u201cdishonest organization.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wenzel\u2019s detractors claim his DD-214 is an obvious forgery: different type fonts, with his training as a warehouseman stationed in Okinawa, Japan in 1972 not consistent with his decorations. And the form is signed by the same lieutenant colonel who signed another DD-214 form from another Post 8036 member. However, the two men were discharged years and miles apart.<\/p>\n

When a whistle-blower at Post 8036 showed what he called the obvious forgery to the post commander, the person was demoted and kicked out of the post while Wenzel was promoted, again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But there are no victims of Stolen Valor and Shame on those guys who were suppressing his right to be a bald-faced liar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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