{"id":35671,"date":"2013-05-17T07:24:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T11:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35671"},"modified":"2013-05-17T17:46:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T21:46:30","slug":"harold-l-routson-taking-stolen-valor-to-the-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35671","title":{"rendered":"Harold L. Routson, taking Stolen Valor to the grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/scotty-stolenvaloroffendersexposed.blogspot.com\/2013\/05\/harold-l-routson-us-army-special-forces.html\">Scotty<\/a>, we get the records of Harold L. Routson. His obit tells of a Special Forces Vietnam veteran with more than 20 years of service, but his records tell a different story;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Harold-L.-Routson-obit.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Harold-L.-Routson-obit-300x250.png\" alt=\"Harold L. Routson obit\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Harold-L.-Routson-obit-300x250.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Harold-L.-Routson-obit.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Harold-L.-Routson-DD214b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Harold-L.-Routson-DD214b-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"Harold L. Routson DD214b\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Harold-L.-Routson-DD214b-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Harold-L.-Routson-DD214b.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So he joined the Army in 1975 &#8211; after the last US military member left Vietnam. There weren&#8217;t any Special Forces at Fort Campbell in those days. And oh, yeah, 1975-1985 doesn&#8217;t add up to 20 years, no matter how hard I try to manipulate the math for him. His assignments;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Harold-L.-Routson-2-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Harold-L.-Routson-2-1-300x136.png\" alt=\"Harold L. Routson 2-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"136\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Harold-L.-Routson-2-1-300x136.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Harold-L.-Routson-2-1.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So, why didn&#8217;t he finish 20 years, well, look at block 29 on the bottom part of his DD214;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Harold-L.-Routson-DD214-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Harold-L.-Routson-DD214-2-300x232.png\" alt=\"Harold L. Routson DD214-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Harold-L.-Routson-DD214-2-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Harold-L.-Routson-DD214-2.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Usually, at this point, we say &#8220;perfectly honorable service ruined by embellishment&#8221;, but this time we say &#8220;oh, well, no wonder he embellished&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Scotty, we get the records of Harold L. Routson. His obit tells of a Special &hellip; <a title=\"Harold L. Routson, taking Stolen Valor to the grave\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35671\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Harold L. 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