{"id":33226,"date":"2012-12-14T10:21:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T14:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33226"},"modified":"2012-12-14T10:21:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T14:21:07","slug":"kenneth-l-godwin-that-phony-obit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33226","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth L. Godwin; that phony obit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, Old Trooper sent us an obit on Kenneth L. Godwin<\/a> who pretended to be a Lieutenant Colonel and in his photo accompanying the obit, he was wearing a Combat Action Badge. We doubted his claims, just based on the picture he took before he died. His estranged daughter <\/a>came by and told us that our suspicions were not baseless, despite the folks who came by<\/a> to defend Godwin. <\/p>\n

Well, Hondo got his records last night<\/a> and we were right. His service ended decades ago as a Staff Sergeant. There’s no Silver Star, no Bronze Star, not even an assignment to he 101st that I can see, let alone verification of his time with Rangers and Special Forces.<\/p>\n

So,, yes, we know that obits are notoriously inaccurate, but the picture that accompanies the obit is a lie, too. And it looks like he was alive when the picture was taken and so he was complicit in the lie to a point. So you phonies out there, come clean to your family while you’re still alive or the fact that you were a liar will be their last memory of you when your obit is featured on TAH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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