{"id":30823,"date":"2012-07-16T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T20:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30823"},"modified":"2012-07-16T16:36:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T20:36:09","slug":"doug-sterners-war-against-forgotten-valor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30823","title":{"rendered":"Doug Sterner’s war against forgotten valor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our buddy, Doug Sterner, is featured in Stars & Stripes<\/a> along with his database of hundreds of thousands of records, many of which the Defense Department considers lost in the pretenders’ favorite dodge which has become the Pentagon’s favorite argument against working on their own database;<\/p>\n

Thanks to the Army\u2019s bureaucratic redundancy, most of what he needed to assemble this list was filed at National Archives in College Park, Md. Yet the fire was one of several reasons cited by the Department of Defense for not attempting to assemble a list of military valor medals.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone who says this can\u2019t be done simply doesn\u2019t have the will to do it,\u201d Sterner said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We all know how much much or an asset he’s been to this blog and the rest of us “valor vultures” as the phonies like to call us, Doug says that his battle isn’t with stolen valor criminals, but rather with “forgotten valor”;<\/p>\n

His most powerful inspiration through the years of work, he said, was a close friend, Jaime Pacheco, killed in Vietnam in 1972. Pacheco, a Ranger, sacrificed himself to cover his reconnaissance team\u2019s withdrawal from a bunker complex.<\/p>\n

That sacrifice, and the Silver Star that resulted, should never be lost or forgotten, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think even worse than when someone pretends to be a hero \u2014 stolen valor \u2014 is when the nation forgets generations of real heroes,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s forgotten valor. I can\u2019t allow that to happen.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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