{"id":63438,"date":"2015-12-22T08:01:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T13:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63438"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:51","slug":"steve-valcke-phony-vietnam-veteranphony-pow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63438","title":{"rendered":"Steve Valcke; phony Vietnam veteran\/phony POW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63439\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63439\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Steve-Valcke-Macon-GA-Vietnam-POWa.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Valcke Macon GA Vietnam POWa\" width=\"214\" height=\"238\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63439\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Someone sent us their work on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/steve.valcke\">Steve Valcke<\/a> fellow. He visited a Houston, Georgia-area school for a Veterans&#8217; Day talk with the kids there according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macon.com\/news\/local\/community\/houston-peach\/the-sun-news\/article45324741.html\">Macon Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63477\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63477\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image0031-279x300.jpg\" alt=\"image003\" width=\"279\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image0031-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image0031-310x333.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image0031.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>You can see in the picture that he&#8217;s wearing a Vietnam veteran T-shirt as well as a Vietnam veteran cap and the caption says that he&#8217;s Vietnam veteran and a POW. Not even close. He spent less than four weeks in the Air Force in 1974. He does have a National Defense Service Medal in his records, though, even though his enlisted service began the day after eligibility ended for the award &#8211; so yeah, he doesn&#8217;t even deserve that one except by clerical error.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63441\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63441\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Steven-G.-Valcke-Phony-Vietnam-POW-001-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"Steven G. Valcke, Phony Vietnam POW 001\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Steven-G.-Valcke-Phony-Vietnam-POW-001-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Steven-G.-Valcke-Phony-Vietnam-POW-001-242x333.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He couldn&#8217;t handle four weeks in Air Force Basic Training, I&#8217;m sure he would have held up real good in Vietnamese POW camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent us their work on this Steve Valcke fellow. He visited a Houston, Georgia-area school &hellip; <a title=\"Steve Valcke; phony Vietnam veteran\/phony POW\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63438\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Steve Valcke; phony Vietnam veteran\/phony POW<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63438","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=63438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}