{"id":32841,"date":"2012-11-14T08:50:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T12:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32841"},"modified":"2012-11-14T08:50:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T12:50:10","slug":"shocker-dods-valor-website-incomplete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32841","title":{"rendered":"Shocker; DoD’s valor website incomplete"},"content":{"rendered":"

After saying for years that a website with a complete list of valor awards is impractical, the Department of Defense is proving it. Our buddy, Doug Sterner sends us a link to an article<\/a> which charges that more than 60 awards of Silver Star medals are missing.<\/p>\n

Doug tells us in an email;<\/p>\n

The 62 missing SS recipients include FIFTEEN men whose awards are posthumous, which concerns me even more than the others for if anything, we need to properly remember those who died heroically. Of the 15 missing from the DoD website (valor.defense.mil), four of them WERE listed on the other database (the one that compromised the MOH\/DSC SSNs) [Brostrom, Lindskog, Weeks, Worrell]. At least TWO of these have buildings named for them at Fort Benning , at least two are buried at Arlington with headstones denoting their Silver Star, one is a West Point Graduate, and at least one has a U.S. Post Office Named for him.<\/p>\n

NOTE: THESE all deal with ARMY Silver Stars. There are a few missing from the other services, including 1 DSC not listed and 1 Navy Cross not listed, but the Army Silver Stars represent the worst of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Who could have guessed that a team of bureaucrats would make mistakes? It seems to me that the government could have done better by buying the database that Doug has been working on for over a decade and checking his work rather than starting over. But you’d think the quality of their work would be marginally better since they have better access to the information to be inputted. But no one has ever accused the government of taking advantage of their strengths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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