{"id":56615,"date":"2014-11-24T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56615"},"modified":"2014-11-24T18:24:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T23:24:12","slug":"bob-curtis-phony-pow-on-veterans-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56615","title":{"rendered":"Bob Curtis; phony POW on Veterans’ Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bob_Curtis\"<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Average NCO found this guy, Bob Curtis, in the Lebanon Democrat<\/a>. He was to speak at a Veterans’ Day parade for Wilson County, Tennessee;<\/p>\n

Principal speaker for the day will be Spc. Bob Curtis, who was a prisoner of war of the Vietnamese for a year, spending his time carrying a 4-feet-by-4-feet bamboo crate he was locked in at night and also at the so-called \u201cHanoi Hilton.\u201d He escaped twice but was recaptured both times. Curtis, a graduate of Lebanon High School, joined the Army on Sept. 7, 1966. He was attached as a medic to many units, but mainly as part of a long-range patrol team with the 4th Infantry Division.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He is not listed at DPMO<\/a> as a Vietnam War POW, and actual POW Captain Mike McGrath who was held by the North Vietnamese for nearly 6 years tells us that he wasn’t a POW with him at the Hanoi Hilton;<\/p>\n

No man named Bob Curtis was ever with any one of us, the real surviving 662 POWs who came back from the Vietnam War, nor is he known by the Department of Defense in this regard. The official U.S. Government listing of all 3,887 MIAs (to include all POWs) is at this official web site: http:\/\/www.dtic.mil\/dpmo\/ Mr. Curtis is not listed. He is a phony POW.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Curtis was actually a Vietnam veteran and a medic. It looks like he did more than 18 months in Vietnam as an aidman and an ambulance driver with an artillery unit. But there’s nothing in his records that indicate that he was a POW;<\/p>\n

\"Bob<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Bob<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

There is sufficient evidence that he was extraordinary without the story of being a POW and carrying a cage around for whatever reason and his two failed escapes. And those are some really shiny boots and a really sharp crease in those drawers in that picture.<\/p>\n

As far as we know, the event went off as planned, but I’ve emailed the editorial staff of the Lebanon Democrat. If I don’t hear from them, I’ll call.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> So, the reporter went back to him and Curtis showed him a VA POW card and *surprise* part of his records were destroyed in the 1973 fire. Now he’s saying that he wasn’t held at the Hanoi Hilton, but he was in Cambodia and Laos traipsing around with Viet Cong. He has also reduced his time as a POW from a year to four months.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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