{"id":64113,"date":"2016-01-31T09:33:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T14:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64113"},"modified":"2016-01-31T09:34:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T14:34:16","slug":"stolen-valor-in-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64113","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Valor in the media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a nice chat the other day with Joe Hotchkiss of the <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.augusta.com\/opinion\/opinion-columns\/2016-01-30\/rank-amateurs-stolen-valor-perpetrators-insult-americas-real?v=1454194631\">Augusta Chronicle <\/a> in regards to stolen valor, what else. Joe wrote a nice opinion piece in the paper yesterday and mentioned us after admitting that his only time in uniform was in the school band. He talks about one of our more successful busts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56908\">Jason Scaletta<\/a>. He also mentioned some of our work on the Burns, Oregon crowd. But mainly it&#8217;s a warning to those scads of phonies that we&#8217;ll catch them all eventually;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That means if you want to wear a Purple Heart \u2013 the medal given to military members wounded or killed while defending their country \u2013 you can.<\/p>\n<p>But it won\u2019t make you a genuine Purple Heart recipient.<\/p>\n<p>It will make you a callous numbskull. Or, if you already are a numbskull, it will efficiently send the message to others that you\u2019re a numbskull.<\/p>\n<p>THE INTERNET sends the message very well, too. Two websites \u2013 <em>militaryphony.com<\/em> and <em>valorguardians.com<\/em> \u2013 have kept tabs on hundreds and hundreds of these valor thieves, and you can see them in all their fake-uniformed glory. Though I\u2019m no medical expert, I would caution actual veterans against looking at these sites if they\u2019re under doctor\u2019s orders to control their blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p>The sites\u2019 researchers are quite thorough.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But you should click over and give Joe some linky love for getting our message out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a nice chat the other day with Joe Hotchkiss of the Augusta Chronicle in &hellip; <a title=\"Stolen Valor in the media\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64113\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stolen Valor in the media<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64113","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=64113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}