{"id":73639,"date":"2017-07-28T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73639"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:47:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:47:59","slug":"vernon-perry-phony-korean-war-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73639","title":{"rendered":"Vernon Sperry; phony Korean War veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Someone was curious about this fellow, Vernon Sperry when he started telling tall tales about how he single-handedly drove the Chinese back above the 38th Parallel, or words to that affect. He even told his stories to the local news, back in 2009;<\/p>\n

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He calls himself “The Colonel” and claims that he was awarded five Purple Heart Medals and that he will be awarded the Medal of Honor some day. He shows folks this DD214;<\/p>\n

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He claims these awards;<\/p>\n

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Yeah, I don’t know what half of those things are either. Most of them aren’t even individual awards, the French Fourrag\u00e8re hasn’t been awarded to US Marines since the First World War. <\/p>\n

Well, it turns out that Mr Sperry didn’t join the Marine Corps until a year after the Korean War ended, and it looks like he was stationed at Camp Pendleton, California the whole time he was in the Marine Corps. He was an infantryman most of the time except when he had guard duties at the brig. <\/p>\n

Sperry may have been blowed up a little on April 18, 1955 when an artillery round hit a messhall on Pendleton. His records show that he was in the hospital for a few weeks beginning April 19th – no Purple Hearts are awarded for action in the messhall in California, though;<\/p>\n

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Here’s a poem he wrote about his five Purple Hearts;<\/p>\n

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Big thanks to Bulldog at Guardian of Valor for putting a rush on this FOIA for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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