{"id":35686,"date":"2013-05-17T13:52:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T17:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35686"},"modified":"2013-05-17T13:52:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T17:52:28","slug":"ferris-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35686","title":{"rendered":"Ferris resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We first wrote about James Ferris on March 1st<\/a> when we discovered some medals he was wearing which weren’t in his reocrds. We teamed up with Mark Weiner of the Syracuse Post-Standard<\/a> when Mark wrote an article about Ferris, from Liverpool, NY, when he went to a ceremony at the White House. Mark was able to send a reporter to ferris house and confront him with his records. Oddly enough, before the reporter went to Ferris’ house, I’d told Mark about how some phonies said they were wearing their fathers’ medals to honor his service. Ferris told the reporter that he was wearing his brother’s medals to honor his service. Funny how the fakers have a discernible pattern. Anyway, Ferris offered to resign as the President of the Korean War Veterans Association and the Board refused to accept his resignation.<\/p>\n

Today Mark sends us a link to his latest article on the subject<\/a> announcing that the membership of the KWVA has sounded off and forced the Board to accept Ferris’ resignation;<\/p>\n

Aldridge said the board changed its position after hearing from members of chapters across the nation who said Ferris should no longer represent them.<\/p>\n

“We had a lot of requests that Jim step aside,” Aldridge said. “And like the rest of us, he’s not in the best of health. That was one of the motivating reasons.”<\/p>\n

Ferris, reached at his home in Clay today, confirmed his resignation and said, “I’m not well anymore. But it’s for personal reasons, mainly.”<\/p>\n

When asked to elaborate, Ferris would say only, “The membership will find out when it goes through the proper channels.”<\/p>\n

Aldridge said the KWVA’s membership of about 15,000 veterans has not been notified as a group about the change at the top. He said the change will be become official with the completion of a routine audit, done anytime the group has a change in command.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I heard the rumor yesterday and I was in the process of trying to verify it when someone announced it in the comments. Some of our friends in KWVA couldn’t even verify it through their connections – I guess the KWVA is keeping it’s membership in the dark. With what I’ve seen from the leadership at KWVA, I think it needs some serious housecleaning. My uncle, a former VFW post commander and Vietnam veteran had to let the local KWVA post commander about Ferris because the KWVA leadership wasn’t telling anyone. Since this is the 60th anniversary year of the end of outward hostilities in the Korean War, I’d think that KWVA would want someone without this baggage to represent them in public. But that’s just me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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