{"id":36416,"date":"2013-06-27T07:41:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T11:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36416"},"modified":"2013-06-27T07:41:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T11:41:16","slug":"ladner-still-campaigns-for-a-top-slot-in-our-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36416","title":{"rendered":"Ladner still campaigns for a top slot in our tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of you have sent us links to the report at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswest9.com\/story\/22698133\/lawyer-for-sgt-shane-ladner-speaks-out-about-purple-heart-accusations\">News West 9<\/a> who interviewed John Cook, Shane Ladner&#8217;s lawyer, in regards to the DD214 about which we have questions in regards to Ladner&#8217;s Purple Heart. Cook says that &#8220;luckily&#8221; they have uncovered Ladner&#8217;s DD214 which he signed when he left Fort Benning;<\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/KWES.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=732405;hostDomain=www.newswest9.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=355;isShowIcon=true;clipId=9033407;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News%2520-%2520Special%2520Coverage;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay'><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We were lucky enough to find the original, the one that Shane signed when he walked out of Ft. Benning in Georgia,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cook is talking about a military document called a DD 214 that&#8217;s given to veterans when they&#8217;re released from active duty.<\/p>\n<p>According to the document, Ladner has received several awards including the Purple Heart.<\/p>\n<p>Cook said they sent the papers to be examined by a former document expert of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. In a letter, the expert said the DD 214 is the real deal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an original un-altered, no erasers, the word &#8216;Purple Heart&#8217; specifically was printed on that document by the same laser printer that printed all the information,&#8221; Cook said.<\/p>\n<p>NewsWest 9 also reviewed other copies of Ladner&#8217;s military and health records. Those documents list and make references to a Purple Heart award. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, let&#8217;s see the orders for the medal. A clerk doesn&#8217;t do a mind-meld with the subject of a DD214 when they type up the document &#8211; they need to see supporting documentation. I haven&#8217;t seen any orders for the medal yet. If the entire DD214 is a forgery, there wouldn&#8217;t be evidence of alteration. And what were the result of their search of hospital records in Panama that they promised us? Why hasn&#8217;t anyone come forward and verified the incident which resulted in the wound?<\/p>\n<p>Ladner lied about his participation in Just Cause and then altered his story when busted, and then lied that he was told to lie by his commander. I hope they find evidence that this lawyer participated in the scam and hammer his fat, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of you have sent us links to the report at News West 9 who &hellip; <a title=\"Ladner still campaigns for a top slot in our tournament\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36416\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ladner still campaigns for a top slot in our tournament<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36416","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=36416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}