{"id":29479,"date":"2012-04-12T08:53:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T12:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29479"},"modified":"2012-04-12T08:53:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T12:53:05","slug":"anthony-vanderhoof-phony-seal-selling-trinkets-in-saginaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29479","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Vanderhoof: Phony SEAL selling trinkets in Saginaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/WJRT.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=698468;hostDomain=www.abc12.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=355;isShowIcon=true;clipId=6923933;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay'><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yeah I knew this guy was FOS when I saw him <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc12.com\/story\/17368446\/former-navy-seal-selling-on-saginaw-corner-selling-trinkets\">in the link sent to us by PCS<\/a>, but I went through the motions of verifying first with POW Network and Captain Larry Bailey. A local news station found Anthony Vanderhoof on a street corner in Saginaw selling cheap plastic crap to get by;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the last several weeks, a former Navy Seal has been on a street corner in Saginaw, on another mission: A mission of survival.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I came home, I was spit on and called a baby killer, all that,&#8221; said Anthony Vanderhoof, disabled Vietnam veteran.<\/p>\n<p>Vanderhoof says that&#8217;s how he was treated when he returned from Vietnam in 1975, but while those words hurt, he says, in a way, they were accurate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I unwrapped a baby, it was wrapped up in grenades, so it was a bomb. There were 7,000 men in Da Nang, that would have destroyed the base.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He has that memory from the war, and there was also the time he was injured.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I played tag with a landmine, lost my toes, got into a firefight, I was hit and on my left hand, I lost my index finger,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The disabled veteran now lives in a Saginaw apartment and is just getting by on Social Security disability payments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All that does is pay my bills and utilities. I have no money for myself,&#8221; Vanderhoof said.<\/p>\n<p>Vanderhoof had a steady job until 2005, but hasn&#8217;t been able to get a job since. He says he has applied to the Veteran&#8217;s Administration for other benefits, and is waiting to see if he is eligible for other financial assistance. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, Mary says that he doesn&#8217;t appear in her database of Vietnam veterans. She also points out that combat troops were withdrawn from Vietnam in 1973, and Vanderhoof says he came back in 1975, of course because he&#8217;s a secret fucking squirrel. He even holds up the place where the finger he lost in the war used to be. Well played Anthony. And a baby wrapped in enough grenades to blow up the base at Da Nang would have to be moved by a truck.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve emailed the author of the story and I&#8217;m awaiting a response but there&#8217;s strength in numbers; terry.r.camp@abc12.com .<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, he fit the stereotypes, so they didn&#8217;t have to check on him. I&#8217;m pretty sure Mumbles McQueasy couldn&#8217;t even get into the military, unless he was in Jimmy Carter&#8217;s VolAr with his 64 GT score. I think it&#8217;s pretty disgusting that the author thought this guy could have been a SEAL &#8211; they do have standards after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah I knew this guy was FOS when I saw him in the link sent to &hellip; <a title=\"Anthony Vanderhoof: Phony SEAL selling trinkets in Saginaw\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29479\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anthony Vanderhoof: Phony SEAL selling trinkets in Saginaw<\/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-29479","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\/29479","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=29479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}