{"id":33056,"date":"2012-12-02T10:44:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T14:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33056"},"modified":"2015-11-27T17:58:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T22:58:54","slug":"thomas-bruso-epic-beard-man-not-a-vietnam-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33056","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Bruso; Epic beard man not a Vietnam vet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember this video of a veteran defending himself on a bus;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lQJFv9SMSMQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He was known as &#8220;Epic Beard Guy&#8221;. But his real name is Thomas Bruso and in interviews <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/thomas-bruso-man-oakland-california-youtube-bus-fight-video-talks-to-kron-raw-video\">he told reporters<\/a> that he was a Vietnam veteran;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Thomas Bruso also told KRON that he did 14 years in prison himself when he got out of Vietnan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I got out of Vietman I was crazy and I was selling drugs and pimping and stuff,&#8221; Bruso said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The video;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/csQjo6iInIU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of course, I don&#8217;t think 3 months in service during the Vietnam War qualifies him as a Vietnam veteran. Here&#8217;s his FOIA, <a href=\"http:\/\/scotty-stolenvaloroffendersexposed.blogspot.com\/2012\/12\/thomas-bruso-aka-vietnam-tom-aka-epic.html\">courtesy of Scotty<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p> <center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Tommy-Bruso-FOIA.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Tommy-Bruso-FOIA-300x243.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tommy Bruso FOIA\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Tommy-Bruso-FOIA-300x243.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Tommy-Bruso-FOIA.png 765w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Thomas-Bruso-assignments.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Thomas-Bruso-assignments-300x52.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Thomas Bruso assignments\" width=\"300\" height=\"52\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Thomas-Bruso-assignments-300x52.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Thomas-Bruso-assignments.png 962w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good that he beat that little punk&#8217;s ass, but that whole crazy vet thing is beyond the pale. He claims he has a license for his gun, but I don&#8217;t think someone who spent 14 years in prison would be allowed to own a gun, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember this video of a veteran defending himself on a bus; He was known &hellip; <a title=\"Thomas Bruso; Epic beard man not a Vietnam vet\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33056\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thomas Bruso; Epic beard man not a Vietnam vet<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33056","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=33056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}