{"id":61683,"date":"2015-09-03T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61683"},"modified":"2015-09-02T15:43:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T19:43:06","slug":"meet-homero-garza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61683","title":{"rendered":"Meet CSM Homero Garza"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Someone sent us a link to the Killeen Daily Herald<\/a> about this fellow, Homero Garza who lives in the vicinity of Fort Hood, Texas. His story did sound too good to be true at first. He claims that he was in the Korean War and then went on to Vietnam. That he had two Silver Star Medals, two Bronze Star Medals, both with a “V” for valor, and ARCOM with a “V”. <\/p>\n

So we ordered his FOIA and it all turns out to be true. I’m sure there’s some embellishment in the story he told to the reporter, but he’s too much of a real bad ass for me to disagree with him. But here are the citations of his awards. It looks like 1968 was a tough year for First Sergeant Garza;<\/p>\n

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It’s just refreshing to read about a real hero, especially from the Vietnam generation. It looks like CSM Garza retired the year before I joined, so I never had the pleasure. I wish I had.<\/p>\n

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