{"id":57682,"date":"2015-01-15T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57682"},"modified":"2015-04-04T18:11:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T22:11:43","slug":"chris-mazurak-phony-veteran-of-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57682","title":{"rendered":"Chris Mazurak; phony &#8220;Veteran of the Game&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=57685\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57685\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Mazurek.jpg\" alt=\"Mazurek\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Mazurek.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Mazurek-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>POG O3 went to the Mets\/Cubs game last year at Citi Field when they honored a veteran by the name of Chris Mazurek. The announcer said that Chris had earned a Silver Star in Ramadi and that Chris had joined the Navy and later the Army. POG O3 checked the <a href=\"http:\/\/valor.defense.gov\/Recipients\/ArmySilverStar.aspx\">Department of Defense list of Army Silver Star awardees<\/a> and Mazurek&#8217;s name didn&#8217;t appear there. So he went to Mary and got a FOIA. <\/p>\n<p>While he waited, he found an article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/27\/sports\/baseball\/putting-the-tigers-situation-into-perspective.html?_r=1&#038;\">New York Times<\/a> from over two years ago where he made the same claims (without the Silver Star);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He served in the Navy, then re-upped and served in the Army in Iraq, saw some ugly combat, and came home in bad shape. After his discharge he stayed with his mother on Long Island for a while, then moved to New York City and wound up sleeping on the streets, drinking in a bad way. But he got sober, got a job as a dog walker with Club Pet NYC, moved into an apartment on the Lower East Side.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Army says &#8220;Who?&#8221; and the Navy said, &#8220;Oh, that guy&#8221;;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=57683\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57683\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Chris-mazurek-Assignments-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"Chris mazurek Assignments\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Chris-mazurek-Assignments-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Chris-mazurek-Assignments.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=57684\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57684\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Chris-Mazurek-DD214-265x300.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Mazurek DD214\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Chris-Mazurek-DD214-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Chris-Mazurek-DD214-294x333.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Chris-Mazurek-DD214.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Mazurek was an Electrical\/Mechanical Repairman and spent five whole months in the Navy and had no awards. He was discharged a month or so after 9\/11\/01. It probably isn&#8217;t the Mets fault, even though New Yorkers blame everything that goes wrong in that town on the Mets. Nope, it was Chris&#8217; fault, completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POG O3 went to the Mets\/Cubs game last year at Citi Field when they honored a &hellip; <a title=\"Chris Mazurak; phony &#8220;Veteran of the Game&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57682\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chris Mazurak; phony &#8220;Veteran of the Game&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57682","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\/57682","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=57682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}