{"id":58211,"date":"2015-02-12T08:30:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T13:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58211"},"modified":"2015-02-12T10:51:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T15:51:43","slug":"clarence-butch-belangia-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58211","title":{"rendered":"Clarence “Butch” Belangia & Kill Devil Hills, NC; Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day<\/a> we talked about Kill Devil Hills’ own Clarence Belangia. While we said that he had never served, some of the residents of that North Carolina town defended him. Their excuses ranged from “so what” to “I’ve seen the DD214”. Someone who has taken it upon herself to harangue us on Facebook, she had “demanded” that we prove to her (because she’s a journalist) that Butch made these claims and then yesterday, she posted this for us to our Facebook message board, hoping we would eat our words;<\/p>\n

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Well, this is how I eat my words; Right off the bat, there’s no name on this portion of a DD214, so how does this prove anything? Next, a Combat Infantry Badge, a Parachutist Badge, the Soldiers Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal, and the Army Commendation Medal are exclusively US Army awards. Butch claimed to be a Marine.<\/p>\n

So, someone needs to keep their story straight here. That’s also why this blog exists – not everyone can do what we do this well because we are combat veterans and we can sift through the bullshit, better than most journalists.<\/p>\n

As I said in the last blog post, you folks can give poor Butch all of the money you can spare, but do so with your eyes wide open. I’m not criticizing you for being the charitable souls that you are, so don’t start condemning me for bringing this to your attention. You know, like you did to the other veterans in your community that tried to tell you about it weeks ago. If you don’t like this new information, maybe you should be mad at Butch and not us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day we talked about Kill Devil Hills’ own Clarence Belangia. While we said that … Clarence “Butch” Belangia & Kill Devil Hills, NC; Part II<\/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-58211","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\/58211","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=58211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}