{"id":62024,"date":"2015-09-26T09:01:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T13:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62024"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:34:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:34:10","slug":"laurence-altenburg-silver-star-phony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62024","title":{"rendered":"Laurence Altenburg; Silver Star phony"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Earlier this year, the Marine Corps League post 756 in Charlotte County, Florida ferreted out a phony in their ranks as reported in the Herald Tribune<\/a>. His name was Laurence Altenburg and he pretended to be a Marine Corps major and he also pretended that he earned a Silver Star and a Purple Heart in Vietnam. It turns out that he was a veteran of Vietnam, but he was a sergeant, not a major, and his highest award was the Good Conduct Medal;<\/p>\n

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

\"Altenburg,<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

It looks like he was an artilleryman in Vietnam for a year from 1967-1968. In the article, he claimed that he was promoted to Major while he was in the inactive reserves – that doesn’t happen. That’s why it’s called “inactive”. He did make it to sergeant, which is better than major anyway. But don’t worry, he didn’t do it for selfish reasons;<\/p>\n

Altenburg said he never intended to fool anyone. His intent, he claimed, was to honor a friend, a Marine who was severely wounded in Vietnam and did get a Silver Star.<\/p>\n

Though Altenburg said he did not know that man during that war, they met years later in New York.<\/p>\n

Altenburg said he thinks he may have told someone about his reason for wearing the medal, at some time. But he said he can\u2019t recall when or if it was before rumors started to go around.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure who could really buy his explanation. Retired Marines I\u2019ve talked to totally scoff at it. A Marine does not wear another Marine\u2019s medals.<\/p>\n

It is out of the question.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good on the MCL for booting him, but, you’d think that a post commander would have been scrutinized a little more, you know, just to avoid the embarrassment if nothing else. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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