{"id":72548,"date":"2017-06-05T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72548"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:48:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:48:38","slug":"james-shippey-phony-pow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72548","title":{"rendered":"James Shippey; phony POW"},"content":{"rendered":"

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AverageNCO spotted this fellow, James Shippey, in his local Anderson, Indiana Herald Bulletin<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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When Diana Shippey married Jim Shippey 30 years ago, she wasn\u2019t exactly sure what she was getting into.<\/p>\n

Over the years, she has helped her husband, who served in the Army in Korea in 1952, did five tours of Vietnam between 1964 and 1973, and spent 52 months as a prisoner of war in Hanoi, fight off nightmares.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wish I had been there and been a part of his life before it was all over. I could have been there for him sooner,\u201d said the Elwood native who now lives in Alexandria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So it turns out that Jim has been busted before by the old POW Network, countless times between 2004 and 2007, and now he’s back;<\/p>\n

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Shippey claims that he served in the Korean War and in Vietnam, that he began his service in 1951. Yeah, no. He served in Vietnam – twice – but he enlisted in 1955, two years after the armistice in Korea. He retired in 1976. He claims that he has three Silver Star Medals, a Distinguished Flying Cross, three Bronze Star Medals, five Purple Heart Medals but none of that s true. He has one Purple Heart, not five, and no valor awards. He does have a Combat Infantryman Badge because he was assigned as an 11 Foxtrot in Vietnam (Infantry Operations and Intelligence Specialist) during his two tours of the war in 1967 and 1972;<\/p>\n

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He’s not listed at DPAA as a recovered POW;<\/p>\n

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Yeah, this one is a head scratcher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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