{"id":46662,"date":"2014-05-10T12:03:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T16:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=46662"},"modified":"2014-05-10T12:06:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T16:06:35","slug":"james-h-manse-towery-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=46662","title":{"rendered":"James H. &#8220;Manse&#8221; Towery revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=38265\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38265\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/James-H-Towery-blues-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"James H Towery blues\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/James-H-Towery-blues-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/James-H-Towery-blues-233x333.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/James-H-Towery-blues.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We wrote about James &#8220;Manse&#8221; Towery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38259\">last year<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs46.com\/story\/25474779\/marines-expose-fellow-serviceman-for-false-claims?autostart=true\">the media in Atlanta<\/a> is catching up to the story after some Marines from his unit stepped up to expose his lies.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;He didn&#8217;t deploy with us,&#8221; said Mark Mattson, who said he snapped a photo of Towery the day the unit deployed, leaving Towery behind.<\/p>\n<p>The Marine Corps told CBS46 News that personnel records show no indication that Towery served in Iraq or Afghanistan and did not receive Purple Heart medals. <\/p>\n<p>When Chirico asked Towery whether he served in Iraq and Afghanistan, Towery responded, &#8220;what do you want me to tell you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When Chirico questioned Towery about the Purple Heart medal hanging on a wall in his home, Towery said, &#8220;I have no further comment.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears that he did serve, although the Navy told us that he hadn&#8217;t served in the Marines or the Marine Corps Reserves. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=38264\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38264\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/James-H-Towery-FOIA-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"James H Towery FOIA\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/James-H-Towery-FOIA-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/James-H-Towery-FOIA-336x333.jpg 336w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/James-H-Towery-FOIA.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to the news article, Towery did receive a couple of Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals, but he didn&#8217;t deploy to the war against terror, and he wasn&#8217;t wounded and he doesn&#8217;t have PTS, unless he got anxious when his unit deployed without him.<\/p>\n<p>CBS46 did an excellent job. Reporter Jeff Chirico visited Towery&#8217;s home and let Towery pile up certificates in his arms, and then dropped the bomb on him. Good job, Jeff.<\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/WGCL.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=126199;hostDomain=www.cbs46.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=385;isShowIcon=true;clipId=10146371;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=Video%2520Player;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs46.com\" title=\"CBS46 News\">CBS46 News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who sent the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote about James &#8220;Manse&#8221; Towery last year, and the media in Atlanta is catching up &hellip; <a title=\"James H. &#8220;Manse&#8221; Towery revisited\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=46662\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">James H. &#8220;Manse&#8221; Towery revisited<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46662","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=46662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}