{"id":23880,"date":"2011-06-14T09:33:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T13:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23880"},"modified":"2011-06-14T09:33:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T13:33:10","slug":"doug-sterner-a-heros-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23880","title":{"rendered":"Doug Sterner; a hero&#8217;s hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/protecting-stolen-valor\/2011\/06\/13\/AGbSrgTH_allComments.html#weighIn\">Washington Post<\/a> did an interview with our buddy Doug Sterner. I call him a hero&#8217;s hero because he&#8217;s one of the few who stand up for the real heroes in spite of the criticism against him. <\/p>\n<p>In this video, he explains why he does what he does. What he doesn&#8217;t mention is that he started in the business of hunting phonies when he caught someone who stole the valor of one of his friends who Sterner lost in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" width=\"500px\" height=\"333px\" src=\"http:\/\/specials.washingtonpost.com\/mv\/embed\/?title=Protecting%20stolen%20valor&#038;stillURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Frf%2Fimage_606w%2F2010-2019%2FWashingtonPost%2F2011%2F06%2F13%2FNational-Enterprise%2FVideos%2F06112011-1v%2F06112011-1v.jpg&#038;flvURL=%2Fmedia%2F2011%2F06%2F11%2F06112011-1v.m4v&#038;width=500&#038;height=333&#038;autoStart=0&#038;clickThru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnational%2Fprotecting-stolen-valor%2F2011%2F06%2F13%2FAGbSrgTH_video.html\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post did an interview with our buddy Doug Sterner. I call him a hero&#8217;s &hellip; <a title=\"Doug Sterner; a hero&#8217;s hero\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23880\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Doug Sterner; a hero&#8217;s hero<\/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-23880","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\/23880","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=23880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}