{"id":57028,"date":"2014-12-11T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57028"},"modified":"2014-12-10T10:29:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T15:29:44","slug":"albert-blake-dodson-phony-vietnam-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57028","title":{"rendered":"Albert Blake Dodson, phony Vietnam Veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve found that the Library of Congress&#8217; Veterans&#8217; History Project is jam-packed with phonies trying to make their lies true. This is one of those. Albert Blake Dodson tried to convince them that he was a Vietnam veteran, even though he&#8217;d been discharged two years before combat troops were introduced to that war. He&#8217;d never left the Continental United States. We&#8217;ll never know what he told the interviewer, because apparently, they pulled his stories;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=57030\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57030\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Albert-Blake-Dodson-LOC-Bio-300x267.png\" alt=\"Albert Blake Dodson LOC Bio\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Albert-Blake-Dodson-LOC-Bio-300x267.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Albert-Blake-Dodson-LOC-Bio-373x333.png 373w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Albert-Blake-Dodson-LOC-Bio.png 747w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=57029\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57029\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Albert-Blake-Dodson-FOIA-300x224.png\" alt=\"Albert Blake Dodson FOIA\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Albert-Blake-Dodson-FOIA-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Albert-Blake-Dodson-FOIA-445x333.png 445w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Albert-Blake-Dodson-FOIA-400x300.png 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Albert-Blake-Dodson-FOIA.png 866w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=57031\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57031\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Albert-Blake-Dodson-Assignments-300x152.png\" alt=\"Albert Blake Dodson Assignments\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57031\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Albert-Blake-Dodson-Assignments-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Albert-Blake-Dodson-Assignments-500x254.png 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Albert-Blake-Dodson-Assignments.png 846w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We can tell from the bio that he claimed two more years of service than he actually had and that he was a sergeant in an aviation unit, when actually he was a private in an artillery unit. It looks like he was discharged early for some reason. But it&#8217;s probably the first time we have a phony who served BEFORE the Vietnam War and claimed combat in that war. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve found that the Library of Congress&#8217; Veterans&#8217; History Project is jam-packed with phonies trying to &hellip; <a title=\"Albert Blake Dodson, phony Vietnam Veteran\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57028\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Albert Blake Dodson, phony Vietnam Veteran<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57028","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\/57028","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=57028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}