{"id":71252,"date":"2017-04-05T07:56:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T11:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71252"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:48:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:48:43","slug":"dan-rather-the-phony-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71252","title":{"rendered":"Dan Rather; the phony Marine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our friends at Military Corruption<\/a> called last night to tell us about their latest post. It seems that iconic news reader, Dan Rather, put the above picture in his book, Rather Outspoken; My Life in the News<\/a>. If you do an image search on Google, it’s pretty much everywhere, for example it’s posted at The Academy of Achievement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The truth about Rather’s brief career in the Marine Corps is that he was discharged before he finished basic training, according to BG “Jug” Burkett in his book “Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History<\/a>“;<\/p>\n

“Rather never made it out of recruit training. He couldn’t do the physical activity,” Burkett declared. The exposer of many a wannabe and phony hero, says Rather was discharged as “medically unfit” on May 11, 1954.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rather claims that he was discharged because the Corps found out that he had rheumatic fever as a child. From Rather’s bio on Wiki<\/a>;<\/p>\n

In 1954, Rather enlisted in the United States Marine Corps but was soon discharged because he had rheumatic fever as a child.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Regardless of the reason, he was not a Marine, as any actual Marine will tell you because he didn’t graduate from boot camp and he wasn’t awarded the Eagle, Globe and Anchor, but here he is wearing the EGA in this picture.<\/p>\n

Rather also starred in another section of Burkett’s book according to Wiki;<\/p>\n

On June 2, 1988, Rather hosted a CBS News special, The Wall Within. In it, he interviewed six former servicemen, each of whom said he had witnessed horrible acts in Vietnam. Two of the men said that they had killed civilians, and two others said that they had seen friends die. Each talked about the effects the war had upon their lives \u2013 including depression, unemployment, drug use and homelessness.<\/p>\n

In their self-published book Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of its Heroes and its History, authors B. G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley said they had obtained the service records of all six men, documenting where each was stationed during the Vietnam War. According to the records, the authors said, only one of the men was actually in Vietnam; he claimed to have been a 16-year-old Navy SEAL but, said Burkett and Whitley, the records listed him as an equipment repairer.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dan Rather – Reporting fake news before it was popular,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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