{"id":63540,"date":"2015-12-29T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63540"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:50","slug":"ira-kelly-phony-pow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63540","title":{"rendered":"Ira Kelly; phony POW"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Someone sent us their work on this fellow, Ira Wilbur Kelly, who passed on in August at the age of 69. He was indeed a Vietnam veteran, a helicopter mechanic who deployed twice there. August of 1967 to November of 1968 with the 545th Transportation Detachment<\/a> and again from June 1970 to June 1971 with the 187th Attack Helicopter Company<\/a>. He served in the Army from 1964 to 1985 with countless overseas assignments including his two deployments to Vietnam. Then he told this story in TribLive<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Ira Kelly, 66, served in the Army from 1964 through 1985 including four years during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n

Ira Kelly was a combat-helicopter crew chief.<\/p>\n

His aircraft was shot down by the North Koreans during his stint from 1967-71.<\/p>\n

During that time, he was held captive.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a prisoner of war for one year and 128 days,\u201d Ira Kelly said. \u201cThe Lord took care of me.\u201d<\/p>\n

After his release, Ira Kelly served an additional year in the military.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, I’m going to give Ira the benefit of doubt and say that the reporter misreported the quote. he probably meant that the North Vietnamese shot him down, because although Ira had numerous overseas tours, none of them were to Korea. But, he wasn’t shot down or held prisoner by the Vietnamese either;<\/p>\n

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The POW Medal was established in November 1985 and Ira retired in April 1985, so he would have missed having the medal in his records by a few months, but that wouldn’t have affected in his inclusion in the DPAA records of POW and Missing Americans. None of his deployments to Vietnam lasted long enough for him to have been a POW for “a year and a 128 days”. Yeah, I don’t understand it either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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