{"id":28054,"date":"2011-12-23T10:31:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T14:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28054"},"modified":"2011-12-23T16:58:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T20:58:25","slug":"updates-on-the-pow-general-phony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28054","title":{"rendered":"Updates on the POW General phony (Video added)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/video.newyork.cbslocal.com\/global\/video\/videoplayer.js?rnd=730201;hostDomain=video.newyork.cbslocal.com;playerWidth=425;playerHeight=332;isShowIcon=true;clipId=6575403;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=CBS.NY%252Fworldnowplayer;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed'><\/script><br \/>\nI talked with Ned Rausch, a journalist at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lohud.com\/article\/20111223\/NEWS02\/312230045\/POW-general-grand-marshal-s-record-service-fails-materialize-?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Frontpage\">Journal News<\/a> yesterday. He emailed me that he talked with phony Brig. General Fermijon Marrero and asked him some questions about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27916\">the disparity between his narrative and mine<\/a>. Marrero had an opportunity to come clean and blew it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He said he\u2019s a Lt Col in the regular army but never made it to Brig Gen. (He didn\u2019t explain the discrepancy.) He said he was in the military from 1964 to 1987. He said he was a POW but admitted that his name does not appear in the records. Asked why that would be, he said, \u201cI know not.\u201d I asked him about the records showing he was a private in the mid-1970s. He said he re-enlisted in 1976, trained at Fort Dix and then \u201cgot out\u201d in 1977.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, if you&#8217;re not on the DoD&#8217;s list of POWs, you weren&#8217;t a POW, it&#8217;s that easy. Now that he found out that there is a publicly available list of General Officers, he admits that he&#8217;s not a General.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/2011\/12\/22\/westchester-man-masquerading-as-brigadier-general-for-years-finally-outed-by-true-veterans\/\">CBS Channel 2 in New York<\/a> confronted Marrero, too (Thanks to Greg for the link);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Marrero said he pretended to be a one-star general because he liked the adulation.<\/p>\n<p>Marrero: \u201cIt felt good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown: \u201cIt felt good?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marrero: \u201cYeah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown: \u201cHow did they treat you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marrero: \u201cGreat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown: \u201cOne guy called you a scoundrel. He said you are a disgrace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marrero: \u201cHe can go to hell for all I care!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown: \u201cDo you understand how they could feel?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marrero: \u201cYes, I understand how they could feel \u2026 betrayed or something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown: \u201cDo you understand?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marrero: \u201cYes, I understand.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet he still clings to the betrayal.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Ned for mentioning us in the Journal News article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I talked with Ned Rausch, a journalist at the Journal News yesterday. He emailed me that &hellip; <a title=\"Updates on the POW General phony (Video added)\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28054\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Updates on the POW General phony (Video added)<\/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-28054","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\/28054","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=28054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}