{"id":28036,"date":"2011-12-22T09:08:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T13:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28036"},"modified":"2011-12-22T09:08:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T13:08:52","slug":"that-phony-pow-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28036","title":{"rendered":"That Phony POW General"},"content":{"rendered":"

We wrote about Fermijon Marrero<\/a>, who was the honored guest at a New Rochelle, NY event celebrating Veterans’ Day last month and his records disputed his rank and his personal narrative of being a POW in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

The New Rochelle Main Street Connect<\/a> has finally corrected their story which appeared last month celebrating Marrero’s decision to move to their town.<\/p>\n

Veterans groups are accusing Fermijon Marrero, who was honored by the City of New Rochelle and United Veterans Memorial and Patriotic Association during Veterans Day services last month, of lying about his rank and status as a prisoner of war. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And of course, Marrero is still clinging to his poorly crafted narrative;<\/p>\n

Pentagon officials with the Department of Defense confirmed that no one with the last name Marrero was a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War, nor was the 12th Cavalry ever in Laos during that conflict. A Department of Defense website, which lists all those missing in action or taken prisoner in the Vietnam War, does not show anyone with the last name Marrero.<\/p>\n

Asked about the absence of his name from the list, Marrero declined comment but added that \u201cthe facts will come out.\u201d<\/p>\n

He did, however, address the general accusations against him.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy response is they better get their facts straight,\u201d Marrero said. \u201cMy name is not Fermin Ernesto Marrero. It\u2019s Fermijon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marrero said he has never had a middle name.<\/p>\n

Marrero said he will take steps to defend himself and would gather facts and paperwork to discredit his accusers. He offered to fax his DD 214 to The Daily New Rochelle on Wednesday morning but had not sent it as of 3 p.m. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, it’s not his middle name that is in question, is it? If there’s no one named Marrero on the DoD list of POWs, his middle name is irrelevant.<\/p>\n

Robert Cox of “Talk of the Sound<\/a>” believes in giving credit where credit is due;<\/p>\n

John Lilyea (SFC, US Army Retired), author of the This Ain’t Hell But You Can See It From Here blog is reporting that the man claiming to be Brig. General Fermijon Marrero is actually Private Ferman Ernesto Marrero.<\/p>\n

Messages left for Marrero were not returned.<\/p>\n

According to Lilyea, records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act from the National Personnel Records Center in St Louis, Missouri show that Marrero served in the Army reserves for two months, from December 23rd, 1975 to February 8, 1976 and on active duty for seven months from February 9, 1976 to November 22, 1976. He is listed as a private at the time of discharge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m glad that New Rochelle Main Street Connect finally correced the story, but it shouldn’t take a pitchfork brigade to get the truth printed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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