{"id":42539,"date":"2014-04-07T09:02:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T13:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=42539"},"modified":"2014-04-07T09:02:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T13:02:43","slug":"jerry-g-riley-taking-stolen-valor-to-the-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=42539","title":{"rendered":"Jerry G. Riley; taking stolen valor to the grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=42540\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42540\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Jerry-G.-Riley-279x300.png\" alt=\"Jerry G. Riley\" width=\"279\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Jerry-G.-Riley-279x300.png 279w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Jerry-G.-Riley-310x333.png 310w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Jerry-G.-Riley.png 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scotty-stolenvaloroffendersexposed.blogspot.com\/2014\/04\/jerry-g-riley-vietnam-pow-special.html\">Scotty sends<\/a> us his work on Jerry G. Riley who served honorably for about ten years and left the Army as a staff sergeant and then went to work for veterans on several VSOs. Honorable service before and after his discharge in 1967. He served in Vietnam, too. In his obituary above, whoever wrote it made the mistake of saying that he was a POW, of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtic.mil\/dpmo\/vietnam\/reports\/documents\/pmsea_html_r.htm\">he wasn&#8217;t<\/a>, but I&#8217;ll chalk that up to family error. But this obituary, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vfwok.org\/announcements\/the-department-of-oklahoma-veterans-of-foreign-wars-mourns-the-loss-a-great-veteran-and-brother\">from the VFW<\/a>, while not mentioning that he was a POW, says he was Special Forces;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=42546\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42546\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Jerry-G.-Riley-VFW-Obit-300x191.png\" alt=\"Jerry G. Riley VFW Obit\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Jerry-G.-Riley-VFW-Obit-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Jerry-G.-Riley-VFW-Obit-500x319.png 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Jerry-G.-Riley-VFW-Obit.png 979w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He was indeed a Vietnam veteran and spent 6 months there, but unless an artillery repairman was considered Special Forces, he wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=42548\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42548\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Jerry-Riley-FOIA-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jerry Riley  FOIA\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Jerry-Riley-FOIA-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Jerry-Riley-FOIA-242x333.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m beginning to think that all of you Vietnam vets who aren&#8217;t Special Forces and weren&#8217;t POWs were slacking. You just weren&#8217;t trying hard enough. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotty sends us his work on Jerry G. Riley who served honorably for about ten years &hellip; <a title=\"Jerry G. Riley; taking stolen valor to the grave\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=42539\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jerry G. Riley; taking stolen valor to the grave<\/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-42539","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\/42539","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=42539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}