{"id":26969,"date":"2011-10-12T10:33:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T14:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26969"},"modified":"2011-10-12T10:33:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T14:33:48","slug":"calandra-admits-stolen-valor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26969","title":{"rendered":"Calandra admits stolen valor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=6213\">first wrote about Terry Richard Calandra<\/a>, 59, of Forks Township, Pa. back in December 2009. He&#8217;d spent decades forging a phony record and living from his lies which included a Distinguished Service Cross, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star with a \u201cV\u201d device, and FOUR Purple Hearts. He even enlisted the help of former Senator Arlen Spector in an attempt to get his phony story elevated to a Medal of Honor, which finally turned out to be his undoing.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, after years of insisting upon the veracity of his record, he finally admitted today that it was <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.mcall.com\/2011-10-11\/news\/mc-calandra-medal-of-honor-fraud-20111011_1_terry-calandra-military-valor-stolen-valor-act\">all manufactured<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Tuesday, the former Forks Township resident admitted that the record of heroism he held out as worthy of the United States&#8217; highest military honor was a web of lies backed by falsified documents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So for the folks who said we didn&#8217;t know what we&#8217;re talking about in this case, you can write your apologies to the email address in the &#8220;Contact Us&#8221; page. Sometimes you don&#8217;t need the records to spot a phony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We first wrote about Terry Richard Calandra, 59, of Forks Township, Pa. back in December 2009. &hellip; <a title=\"Calandra admits stolen valor\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26969\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Calandra admits stolen valor<\/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-26969","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\/26969","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=26969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}