{"id":26333,"date":"2011-08-29T11:48:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T15:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26333"},"modified":"2011-08-29T11:48:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T15:48:13","slug":"major-chris-shane-and-his-stolen-valor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26333","title":{"rendered":"Major Chris Shane and his Stolen Valor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maj. Chris Shane told the Witchita Eagle<\/a> the white knuckle story about how he chased down and killed an insurgent he suspected had just set off a roadside bomb which had killed young Captain Shawn English, but English’s widow immediately called BS on Shane’s story;<\/p>\n

She said the Army calls what Shaner did “stolen valor,” in using her husband’s death to make himself look heroic. She wants the Army to look into whether Shaner violated Army regulations.<\/p>\n

Lt. Col. Alex Fink, a deputy commander in the 89th Sustainment Brigade, the Wichita-based Army Reserve unit Shaner served in until he recently retired, said the unit is looking into the situation.<\/p>\n

“To me and to my boys, there were a lot of heroes that day, but Chris Shaner wasn’t one of them,” English said of the day her husband was killed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to his unit, Shane was in the unit, but no where near the incident which claimed English’s life.<\/p>\n

But Shaner, now a teacher at Colvin Elementary School, later admitted in an e-mail that he had related an “imagined” version of events. He said he did it because he’s suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder because of his Iraq experiences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, the catch-all PTSD excuse. or maybe its because the Major is a Walter Mitty-type who can’t help himself from telling bold-faced lies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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