{"id":23738,"date":"2011-06-04T10:16:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T14:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23738"},"modified":"2011-06-04T10:16:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T14:16:06","slug":"phony-marine-in-western-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23738","title":{"rendered":"Phony Marine in Western New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/city\/article443557.ece\">Buffalo News<\/a> reports that David A. Fabrizio, 66, a supposed 33-year veteran Marine (four active, the remainder in the MC Reserves) was found guilty of violating the Stolen Valor Act by wearing unauthorized medals to a youth event &#8220;Niagara Youth Marine Cadets&#8221;. He was fined $500 which he donated to a veterans&#8217; organization;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My name and reputation will survive through this minor, yet dark personal event,&#8221; Fabrizio said in a statement e-mailed Friday to The Buffalo News. He added that the incident will not deter him from his efforts to see that veterans are honored.<\/p>\n<p>The incident has upset some local Marines, who said they do not consider it a minor matter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of us heard about this, and yes, it did upset us,&#8221; said Marine Lt. James Lalor, executive officer of the Buffalo-based India Company, 3rd Battalion of the 25th Regiment. &#8220;Any Marine who has ever earned a rank or an honor is sensitive to this kind of thing. A lot of Marines earned those honors but never got to wear them on their chest because they never came back alive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The October 2009 incident prompted a complaint to the Buffalo FBI office, which investigated, authorities said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, he&#8217;s not contrite. Maybe someone in the Buffalo area can convince him that this isn&#8217;t a &#8220;minor&#8221; event. If he had 33 years in service and made E-9 like he says, Fabrizio, should know what &#8220;stolen valor&#8221; is all about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo News reports that David A. Fabrizio, 66, a supposed 33-year veteran Marine (four active, the &hellip; <a title=\"Phony Marine in Western New York\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23738\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Phony Marine in Western New York<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23738","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\/23738","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=23738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}