{"id":30677,"date":"2012-07-08T14:48:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T18:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30677"},"modified":"2012-07-08T14:55:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T18:55:13","slug":"doug-sterner-on-a-national-database-of-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30677","title":{"rendered":"Doug Sterner on a national database of awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our buddy, Doug Sterner, with whom I stood on the steps of the Supreme Court when they announced their decision that the Stolen Valor Act was unconstitutional did this interview with Defense News. Aside from the new Stolen Valor Act currently in committee in the House and Senate, Doug is also pushing a database of awards that he claims will cost the government $8-10 million and will be 98% accurate. Doug has, nearly on his own and with a shoe string budget built the Home of Heroes<\/a>, which includes tens-of-thousands of citations.<\/p>\n

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The Department of Defense claims that it’s not worth their time and expense, that there aren’t that many phonies out there. Well, a look at the participants in our Stolen Valor tournament only goes back to November and has 96 participants. And, tips are coming in at an alarming rate over the last few weeks.<\/p>\n

As Doug says, a database is not a panacea for the problem, but it would certainly make my job easier, and we could be more responsive. Military.com used to have a relatively accurate database of people who had served, and AKO and MOL are good resources for those of us who can get to it. I don’t see the problem, because the systems and data exists, it just needs to be put in a publicly accessible format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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