{"id":27042,"date":"2011-10-17T07:49:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T11:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27042"},"modified":"2011-10-17T07:49:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T11:49:46","slug":"calandra-ptsd-made-me-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27042","title":{"rendered":"Calandra: PTSD made me lie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terry Calandra, who we discussed here<\/a> and here<\/a>, released a statemnet this weekend blaming his PTSD for his lies about a Silver Star and Distinguished Service Cross “to help justify the things I did over there”. Yeah, he said he earned the Silver Star by jumping on a grenade. First of all, didn’t anyone notice that he wasn’t dead? Secondly, how does telling people that you jumped on a grenade help you justify anything?<\/p>\n

Calandra said he returned home in 1970 angry about his experiences and the receptions Vietnam veterans confronted.<\/p>\n

He said he watched a friend die in his arms in Vietnam and he’s struggled for more than 40 years to erase the horrors of other experiences. He hasn’t been able to do it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Millions of people came back angry, but they didn’t start making shit up. he already had 3 Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star – none of which should be sneezed at like Calandra did. What made me suspicious of him in the first palce is the fact that he tried to get Arlen Specter to upgrade his Silver Star to a medal of Honor. Now, I’ve heard of groups of people trying to get someone alse’s medal upgraded, but never have I heard of someone trying to get their own medals upgraded.<\/p>\n

The author of the story, in the comments tries to tell the people ripping Calandra to shreds that Calandra isn’t looking for sympathy, but that’s not how the article reads..he blames the war for his cowardly behavior in regards to his pinning on medals and making shit up. Liek I said, millions of motherfuckers went to the war and didn’t come back telling lies. They honored their brothers by being faithful to their memory.<\/p>\n

Calandra is a petty fuck.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Average NCO for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Terry Calandra, who we discussed here and here, released a statemnet this weekend blaming his PTSD … Calandra: PTSD made me lie<\/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-27042","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\/27042","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=27042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}