{"id":37804,"date":"2013-10-02T18:02:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T22:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37804"},"modified":"2013-10-02T18:02:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T22:02:25","slug":"james-richard-lyons-seaman-apprentice-gunnery-sergeant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37804","title":{"rendered":"James Richard Lyons; Seaman Apprentice Gunnery Sergeant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=37805\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37805\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Gunny-Lyons-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"Gunny Lyons\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Gunny-Lyons-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Gunny-Lyons-226x333.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Gunny-Lyons.jpg 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Scotty sends us a link to his work on James Richard Lyons, who used to drive &#8220;The Wall That Heals&#8221; across the country. He tells stories about his four tours of Vietnam where he lost part of his foot and part of his shoulder while he was a SEAL and Force Recon Marine. He tells of the time, as a Marine he charged up Hamburger Hill (he spells it hamberger and it was a 101st Airborne Division operation).  He wears Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart and Gunnery Sergeant patches on his vest (that&#8217;s him without the pony tail in the photo above). He claims service in Vietnam from 1964 &#8211; 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it turns out that Lyons did a year and change in the Navy and left as a seaman apprentice (E-2);<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=37806\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37806\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Lyons-FOIA-300x294.png\" alt=\"Lyons FOIA\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Lyons-FOIA-300x294.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Lyons-FOIA-339x333.png 339w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Lyons-FOIA.png 584w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Besides driving The Wall That Heals around the country, Lyons is currently a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alvfw.org\/Dept-Roster-form-12-13.htm\">VFW Post Commander<\/a> in Opp, Alabama. Even the fake veterans\/humans at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2009\/10\/13\/a-fake-warrior-and-the-wall-that-heals-the-update\/\">Veterans Today<\/a> spotted Lyons as phony. <\/p>\n<p>But, you should read the whole story at <a href=\"http:\/\/scotty-stolenvaloroffendersexposed.blogspot.com\/2013\/10\/james-richard-lyons-us-navy-seal-usmc.html\">Scotty&#8217;s place<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotty sends us a link to his work on James Richard Lyons, who used to drive &hellip; <a title=\"James Richard Lyons; Seaman Apprentice Gunnery Sergeant\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37804\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">James Richard Lyons; Seaman Apprentice Gunnery Sergeant<\/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-37804","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\/37804","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=37804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}