{"id":71382,"date":"2017-04-11T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71382"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:48:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:48:43","slug":"albert-brun-canadian-phony-and-his-us-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71382","title":{"rendered":"Albert Brum; Canadian phony and his US medal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Someone sent us their work on this fellow Albert Brum. He’s been a phony for years. In 2008<\/a>, he convinced U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye to award him a Bronze Star Medal for his time fighting with the US Army in Europe. A Canadian journalist wrote about him in a local rag<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Brum is one of the few surviving members of the 1st Special Service Force, the joint American-Canadian commando unit that gained fame during the Second World War as the Devil\u2019s Brigade.<\/p>\n

In 2008, he received the Bronze Star for meritorious achievement as a jumper with the 2nd Canadian Parachute Battalion, a sub-unit of the 1st SSF, during the Italian and northwest European campaigns.<\/p>\n

The medal will be presented to him by a delegation including members from the Canadian government and the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently, no one up there asks for proof of service, like Senator Inouye’s staff didn’t.<\/p>\n

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This discharge covers 1944 – he was in the Royal Canadian Air Force from April, 1944 until November 1944 – 222 days including 106 days of leave. He left the service as an AC2 – aircraftman 2d class (one step above private no class). <\/p>\n

Then came 1945;<\/p>\n

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From the looks of the paperwork, he never left Canada that year either. It shows he went to paratrooper training in June and then his parachutist pay ended in July. By then, the war in Europe was over anyway. He was discharged in April 1946 at the rank of sapper (again one step above private according to Wiki<\/a>). At no time during his service in the Canadian Army\/Air Force did he deploy to the Second World War. But somehow a US Senator’s staff awarded him a US medal for his service in the European Theater.<\/p>\n

Of course, his lies didn’t stop there. he claims that he joined the US forces in their war against communism in Vietnam. He enlisted in the Canadian Army’s miltia (Reserves) in 1949 until 1969 and he never left Canada;<\/p>\n

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I’m sure the reserves would have noticed if he was in Vietnam with the US Army while he was fulfilling his contract with the Canadian people.<\/p>\n

The old POW Network had busted him, but that hasn’t stopped him from continuing his antics, apparently;<\/p>\n

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