{"id":75471,"date":"2017-10-19T15:06:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T19:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75471"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:47:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:47:25","slug":"john-garafolo-phony-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75471","title":{"rendered":"John Garofalo; phony SEAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FFoxNews%2Fvideos%2F10156109501021336%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=560\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(I guess Fox yanked the video &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2017\/10\/19\/correction-veteran-glass-artist-falsified-his-military-record.html\">their retraction here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, Fox News ran the above story about John Garofalo who crafts glass and metal into beautiful works of art. For some reason, he felt that he needed to add phony claims to his military career &#8211; that he was one of the first Navy SEALs, that he was wounded twice in Vietnam and that he&#8217;d had to escape from our nation&#8217;s enemies twice. We told our Facebook fans about it when Don Shipley told us about Garofalo, but I was waiting for a FOIA to post it on the blog.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/John-Garafolo-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/John-Garafolo-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/John-Garafolo-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/John-Garafolo-500x273.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/John-Garafolo.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2017\/10\/19\/faker-man-admits-he-lied-to-fox-news-about-navy-seal-service\/\">Military Times<\/a> beat us to the punch;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But when Navy Times contacted Garofalo Thursday, Garofalo admitted he had lied and never served in Vietnam, never received a Purple Heart and was never a SEAL.<\/p>\n<p>Garofalo said he had falsely portrayed himself as a Vietnam vet and a SEAL for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt got bigger and bigger,\u201d Garofalo told Navy Times in a telephone interview. \u201cWhat I did I\u2018m ashamed of, and I didn\u2019t mean to cause so much disgrace to the SEALs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Records show Garofalo did serve in the Navy from Sept. 6, 1963, to Sept. 6, 1967, as an aviation boatswain\u2019s mate &#8211; aircraft handling, or ABH, a job that involves overseeing various ground-based functions involving aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The closest he ever got to Vietnam was a tour in Rota, Spain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He really didn&#8217;t need to make up the claims about combat and about being a SEAL, his works of art speak for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>It probably wouldn&#8217;t have been such a big deal at the Military Times, a Gannet publication, except that it involved President Trump and Fox News both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(I guess Fox yanked the video &#8211; their retraction here) A few weeks ago, Fox News &hellip; <a title=\"John Garofalo; phony SEAL\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75471\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Garofalo; phony SEAL<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75471","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=75471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}