{"id":39383,"date":"2014-01-20T11:02:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T16:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39383"},"modified":"2014-01-20T11:03:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T16:03:10","slug":"do-your-research-willard-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39383","title":{"rendered":"Do your research, Willard Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"

MrBill sends us a video from Willard Scott’s usual shout outs to centenarians. At about 34 seconds into the video, Scott mentions 104-year-old Walter Crenshaw who he says “won” the Congressional Medal of Honor<\/p>\n

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Of course, five seconds of research reveals that Walter didn’t “win” the Congressional Medal of Honor, nor was he awarded it. But another five seconds of research reveals that Walter was a Tuskegee Airman<\/a>, and the Tuskegee airmen were, as a unit, awarded a Congressional Gold Medal in 2007<\/a>. We have the Tuskegee Airmen’s Historian on the line and he tells us that it’s a common misconception among the media and family members that those brave pilots were awarded a Medal of Honor when they really weren’t. But, you’d think someone at NBC who has unrestricted access to interns and fact checkers would get that right. <\/p>\n

I don’t blame Walter, I blame Willard, who should have gotten this one right. Membership with the Tuskegee airmen would have made this a better tribute than the announcement of an award that he never received. Scott dishonored Crenshaw’s service by not doing even ten seconds of research on the man before the show.<\/p>\n

And Happy Birthday, Sergeant Walter Crenshaw, Tuskegee Airman, and may you have many more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MrBill sends us a video from Willard Scott’s usual shout outs to centenarians. At about 34 … Do your research, Willard Scott<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39383","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=39383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}