{"id":58330,"date":"2015-02-19T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58330"},"modified":"2015-02-19T08:19:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T13:19:46","slug":"ryan-berk-honored-by-mcl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58330","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Berk honored by MCL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=58331\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58331\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ryan-Berk-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan Berk\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-58331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ryan-Berk-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ryan-Berk-500x278.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ryan-Berk.jpg 764w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>You probably remember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56736\">Sean Yetman<\/a> who was exposed as a phony in a Philadelphia mall by Ryan Berk a few months ago on Black Friday. Mr. Berk was honored by his local Marine Corps League post for bringing attention to the issue of stolen valor, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theintell.com\/news\/local\/northampton-veteran-honored-for-viral-stolen-valor-video\/article_2fb885b4-1cb5-51d5-b5a5-51e05b6c67dc.html\">Intelligencer<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Berk, a criminal justice major at Temple University who in November confronted a man who was dressed as a soldier but had not served in the military, was presented with the Distinguished Service Award by the Marine group.<\/p>\n<p>In presenting the award, Richard Weaver said the honor was given in recognition of Berk \u201craising public awareness to the issue of stolen valor in our society.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll admit that Berk has indeed succeeded in making the whole stolen valor thing part of the public discourse. I imagine that since he took the video of Yetman, it&#8217;s a lot harder for the phonies to go out in their phony finery and not be confronted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably remember Sean Yetman who was exposed as a phony in a Philadelphia mall by &hellip; <a title=\"Ryan Berk honored by MCL\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58330\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ryan Berk honored by MCL<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stolen-valor-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58330","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=58330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}