{"id":31951,"date":"2012-09-11T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31951"},"modified":"2012-09-11T12:42:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T16:42:14","slug":"neighborhood-evacuated-for-veterans-war-souvenirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31951","title":{"rendered":"Neighborhood evacuated for Veterans&#8217; War souvenirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year we wrote about a phony who took his stolen valor to the grave by the name of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23596\">Staff Sgt. Willie Glenn \u201cBill\u201d Floyd<\/a>. Apparently he left more his family than his <a href=\"http:\/\/thetandd.com\/news\/local\/street-evacuated-after-family-finds-late-veteran-s-keepsakes\/article_953ac128-fbc6-11e1-931c-0019bb2963f4.html\">legacy of lies<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Floyd believes what was found on her and her late husband\u2019s Crawford Street property was some type of container that held either grenades or military artillery rounds. She isn\u2019t exactly sure if they were live or had been deactivated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The same newspaper that gave our buddy, Doug Sterner a hard time when he called to tell them that they&#8217;d been deceived about Floyd&#8217;s military service (they said the family paid for the obit and they wouldn&#8217;t retract it) continues the lie;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A member of the 82nd Airborne and a Green Beret, Bill Floyd also served at one time in a field artillery unit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Doug couldn&#8217;t find records of any of the medals Floyd claimed he earned;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He received 27 medals and ribbons: Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Soldier\u2019s Medal, Bronze Star Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Purple Heart, U.S. Nonmilitary Decorations&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Floyd could afford all of those medals, but he couldn&#8217;t buy a flash for his beret?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year we wrote about a phony who took his stolen valor to the grave by &hellip; <a title=\"Neighborhood evacuated for Veterans&#8217; War souvenirs\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31951\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Neighborhood evacuated for Veterans&#8217; War souvenirs<\/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-31951","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\/31951","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=31951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}