{"id":63516,"date":"2015-12-27T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63516"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:51","slug":"donald-benjamin-tooker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63516","title":{"rendered":"Donald Benjamin Tooker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63519\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63519\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Donald-benjamin-Tooker-178x300.jpg\" alt=\"Donald benjamin Tooker\" width=\"178\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Donald-benjamin-Tooker-178x300.jpg 178w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Donald-benjamin-Tooker-198x333.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Donald-benjamin-Tooker.jpg 436w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Someone sent us their work on this Donald Benjamin Tooker fellow, pictured above last June at a VFW parade. Looking at his awards, he claims to have been wounded in Vietnam and served at least 3 years in the Marine Corps (the Good Conduct Medal). His FOIA says that he did indeed serve in Vietnam with Echo Company, 2d Battalion, 9th Marines, 3rd Marine Division (Fleet Marine Force) but that he fell ill after about three months and was returned to the US, that he wasn&#8217;t awarded a Purple Heart for his illness, and that he served a little over a year in the Marine Corps;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63517\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63517\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Donald-Benjamin-Tooker-Assignments-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Benjamin Tooker Assignments\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Donald-Benjamin-Tooker-Assignments-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Donald-Benjamin-Tooker-Assignments-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Donald-Benjamin-Tooker-Assignments.jpg 566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63518\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63518\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Donald-Benjamin-Tooker-FOIA-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Benjamin Tooker FOIA\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Donald-Benjamin-Tooker-FOIA-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Donald-Benjamin-Tooker-FOIA-259x333.jpg 259w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Donald-Benjamin-Tooker-FOIA.jpg 566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A reasonable person should think that an actual Purple Heart recipient would also have a Combat Action Ribbon since it&#8217;s hard to get a Purple Heart without some combat action. The folks at VFW Post 4715, Point Pleasant, New Jersey should check his DD214 on file there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent us their work on this Donald Benjamin Tooker fellow, pictured above last June at &hellip; <a title=\"Donald Benjamin Tooker\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63516\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Donald Benjamin Tooker<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63516","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\/63516","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=63516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}