{"id":60068,"date":"2015-05-29T07:57:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T11:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60068"},"modified":"2015-05-29T10:51:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T14:51:25","slug":"melvin-earle-gaudette-parading-peacock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60068","title":{"rendered":"Melvin Earle Gaudette; parading peacock"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The fellow in the picture above is a former Fall River City, Massachusetts councilman by the name of Melvin Earle Gaudette<\/a>. Some of his constituents got curious about his preponderance of military awards and sent the picture to Mary. According to one person who confronted him about the medals;<\/p>\n

I asked him about his medals, and he said that “as you get older, they give you medals for having other medals…” I didn’t even know what to say to that one! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, according to his records, he has five service medals, none for merit, which is quite a bit fewer than what he’s wearing in the picture above. <\/p>\n

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

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

According to our curious constituent of Mr. Gaudette, he marches in numerous veteran and patriotic parades in and around Fall River City in his little clown suit, like a peacock for hire.<\/p>\n

The picture is not good enough quality to be able to tell what medals he’s wearing, but just the math is enough to count him out.<\/p>\n

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

ADDED: someone just sent us another more clear photo of Melvin’s phony finery;<\/p>\n

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

\"Melvin<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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