{"id":22226,"date":"2011-02-08T18:27:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T22:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22226"},"modified":"2011-02-08T18:27:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T22:27:36","slug":"stolen-valor-free-speech-that-doesnt-hurt-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22226","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Valor free speech that doesn’t hurt anyone"},"content":{"rendered":"

An obituary of a veteran<\/a>;
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According to Capi Lynn of the Statesman Journal<\/a>, that obituary was written by Marion Jimmie Ballinger’s widow against the advice of friends, based on stories he’d told her all his life, . And it’s mostly false.<\/p>\n

Ballinger’s lies were uncovered a couple of years ago when he became ill, couldn’t afford medical care, and friends tried to help the family find out if he was eligible for veterans health benefits.<\/p>\n

These friends went to his church, they were fellow veterans, and they tried to get him to come clean.<\/p>\n

“He stopped coming to church after that and stopped talking to us,” Lake said. “It was pretty sad.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yup, quit going to church and that’ll cure the whole thing. After all it’s those pesky questions that are the problem, not the lies.<\/p>\n

Carter said the eulogy was filled with the same false claims as the obit, and then some. Ballinger was described as a drill instructor (his records list him as a wheel mechanic, rifleman and scout driver) and as someone who carried out secret missions in Laos, Cambodia and Thailand (his records show he was stationed at Fort Riley, Kan., and in Hawaii.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shitting on his buddies and fellow veterans even while he’s embalmed.<\/p>\n

Even so, Ballinger was inducted to the Oregon Military Hall of Fame in the spring of 2008, along with 95 other POWs. He was just one of three Vietnam POWS in the group. Officials later were alerted to Ballinger’s false claims, and his name has since been expunged from the hall of fame.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Inducted into a hall of fame, standing right there with 95 other real POWs and stealing their valor and strength and looking them right in the eye.<\/p>\n

I noticed among the survivors in Ballinger’s obituary that he has two grandsons listed as Marine corporals. One just returned from Afghanistan, according to their father, and the other is headed there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No shame what-so-ever. Shitting on the service of his own grandsons.<\/p>\n

Here are his real records;<\/p>\n

Ballinger Records<\/a> <\/embed><\/object>\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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