{"id":26269,"date":"2011-08-22T12:48:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T16:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26269"},"modified":"2011-08-22T12:48:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T16:48:34","slug":"the-sad-sad-story-of-gunny-lauve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26269","title":{"rendered":"The sad, sad story of &#8220;Gunny Lauve&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burnpit.us\/2011\/08\/sad-sad-story-gunny-lauve\">OK, so the story is up at Burn Pit now&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>George has been a loyal and hardworking Legionnaire for going on 47 years.  But, alas for all of us, he was never a Marine, doesn\u2019t have the Navy Cross, and doesn\u2019t have five purple hearts.  He served in the Navy for a very short period, and is eligible for Membership, but the rest of his story was just that; a story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>During the entire affair, I spoke repeatedly with Past National Commander Rehbein, who I often turn to when I look for some advice.  Like me, he seemed to find one adjective which best summed up the story: Sad.  At one point there was even squabbling between the Post Adjutant and employees of the post, who still believed in Gunny\u2019s stories.  They\u2019ve subsequently made their peace, but the scars of that argument may be a while in healing.  And that\u2019s what we find with most of these Stolen Valor cases, there\u2019s always victims who aren\u2019t directly connected. <\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t talked to Gunny, nor is there a reason for me to do so.  But, if I had to speculate, I can see how it might have happened.  One bit of hyperbole here, another dash of flair there, and over 47 years the story changes from a short term of service in the Navy to 20+ years in the Marine Corps, with awards and decorations that were awarded only in the minds of the people telling and hearing the stories.  Again, it is all so very sad. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so the story is up at Burn Pit now&#8230;. George has been a loyal and &hellip; <a title=\"The sad, sad story of &#8220;Gunny Lauve&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26269\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The sad, sad story of &#8220;Gunny Lauve&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26269","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}