{"id":22433,"date":"2011-02-28T12:24:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T16:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22433"},"modified":"2012-05-29T06:33:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T10:33:01","slug":"local-vfw-commander-caught-at-stolen-valor-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22433","title":{"rendered":"Local VFW commander caught at Stolen Valor scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert L. Deppe, the local commander of the Lakeport, CA VFW resigned earlier this month because he couldn&#8217;t prove any of his claims about his military service;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Robert L. Deppe, 57, also was arrested earlier this month on suspicion of stealing money from a family member and replacing the $100 bills he took with phony money, according to the Lake County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Deppe resigned this month two days after the VFW post asked him to authorize it to request his military records, said Kirk Macdonald, adjutant of VFW Post 2015. He\u2019d been the commander three years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, it looks like he doesn&#8217;t have ANY military service according to our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pownetwork.org\/phonies\/phonies405.htm\">POW Network<\/a>. But the best part of the story is this part;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Deppe is not on the roster for the U.S. Army, Company H, 75th Infantry, for 1971, as he claims, said William Page, who fought in Vietnam during the time Deppe claims to have been there and who occasionally works with the POW Network. Nor did the National Personnel Records Center have record of his service, said Page, who obtained the information under the Freedom of Information Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot find any record of him being in the military,\u201d said Page, who was an infantryman during the war and now lives in Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>Page said he began looking into Deppe\u2019s background in 2005 after he recognized his own story in Deppe\u2019s autobiographical account of his year in Vietnam and how he earned his medals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw this story and I said, dang, this guy is talking just like me,\u201d said Page, who has a combat infantryman\u2019s badge and a Bronze Star, among other \u201clittle doodads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Page also found excerpts from the story of a man who saved his life in Vietnam and that of a man from his platoon who died.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The William Page in the article is a frequent commenter here at TAH, I won&#8217;t out his screen name, just take my word for it. In fact he linked me up with POW Network years ago. You know you&#8217;re a studly man when phonies start stealing your exploits, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert L. Deppe, the local commander of the Lakeport, CA VFW resigned earlier this month because &hellip; <a title=\"Local VFW commander caught at Stolen Valor scam\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22433\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Local VFW commander caught at Stolen Valor scam<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}