{"id":39920,"date":"2014-02-20T09:17:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T14:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39920"},"modified":"2014-02-20T10:26:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T15:26:13","slug":"wartime-racketeers-stolen-valor-during-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39920","title":{"rendered":"Wartime Racketeers; stolen valor during WWII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jilly sends us a link to the e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/WartimeRacketeers\">Wartime Racketeers<\/a> written by Harry Lever and Joseph Young in 1945. The first chapter &#8220;Hockshop Heroes&#8221; is about some incidences of stolen valor during the war;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/WartimeRacketeers?ui=embed#mode\/1up' width='500px' height='500px' frameborder='0' ><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>I was distracted by some of the fascinating stories that never would have happened in the age of the internet. In the third paragraph of that first chapter, the book claims that more than 2200 people were convicted of fraud by uniform from 1942 to 1945, including WACs, <del datetime=\"2014-02-20T15:25:50+00:00\">WAVs<\/del> WAVES and doughnut dollies.  Some of their phony tomfoolery predated the war. I&#8217;d like to see 2200 frauds prosecuted in this day and age, though.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll warn you that once you start reading, it will be difficult to stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jilly sends us a link to the e-book, Wartime Racketeers written by Harry Lever and Joseph &hellip; <a title=\"Wartime Racketeers; stolen valor during WWII\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39920\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wartime Racketeers; stolen valor during WWII<\/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-39920","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\/39920","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=39920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}