{"id":26750,"date":"2011-09-29T15:56:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T19:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26750"},"modified":"2011-09-29T21:08:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T01:08:54","slug":"this-is-not-the-medal-that-you-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26750","title":{"rendered":"This is not the Medal that you want."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Purple Heart is one of two medals I hope to never get. It is something that is given in compensation for the sacrifices in a armed conflict. It is something that should not be actively sought. But someone should have told that to David Perelman who <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sfweekly.com\/thesnitch\/2011\/09\/purple_heart.php\">shot himself in the foot <\/a>figuratively and literally. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA man who served three months in Vietnam as a cargo specialist in 1971 shot himself in the leg 20 years later and claimed it was a shrapnel wound. And as a result, he earned a Purple Heart and $180,000 in disability benefits from the VA in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>But he shot himself in the foot &#8212; figuratively &#8212; because he later pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud for stealing the disability benefits and for wearing the medal to a national convention of the Military Order of the Purple Heart in Las Vegas. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not surprisingly he tried to say that his actions of were simply freedom of speech. But you know your excuses are bad when even the 9th Court calls you on it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But this week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco declared that argument a stretch. The court clarified the distinction for Perelman, saying he was clearly donning his medal with the intent to deceive others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep so I am sure you will have a fun time trying to explain how that hole in your foot got there to people. <\/p>\n<p>Update: Here is a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/opinions\/2011\/09\/26\/10-10571.pdf\"> link<\/a> to the 9th Court Ruling thanks to the link posted by 2-17AirCav.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Purple Heart is one of two medals I hope to never get. It is something &hellip; <a title=\"This is not the Medal that you want.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26750\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is not the Medal that you want.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26750","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\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}