{"id":80215,"date":"2018-06-27T10:42:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T14:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80215"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:45:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:45:43","slug":"jerry-harrell-phony-panhandling-veteran-still-at-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80215","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Harrell; panhandling phony veteran still at it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We wrote about Jerry Harrell almost three years ago<\/a> when someone spotted him panhandling in Boston, Massachusetts. He was passing himself off as a Vietnam veteran, and the truth is that he has no military service, according to the National Personnel Records Center;<\/p>\n

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Well, he’s back at it again and journalists at the Tuft’s Daily<\/a> News don’t have access to Google, apparently;<\/p>\n

Somerville has become an increasingly expensive area to live in, with an online estimate by Zillow citing an eight percent increase in housing costs in the past year. At the same time, nonprofits like Spare Change News and the SHC have worked to help individuals throughout the area, including formerly homeless veteran Jerry Harrell.<\/p>\n

Born and raised in East Boston, Mass., Harrell left the city in 1970 to fight in the Vietnam War. After years in combat, Harrell found himself back in the United States as a war veteran with nowhere to turn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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That “Spare Change<\/a>” newspaper in his greasy little dick-beaters was created so the panhandlers would have something to give their benefactors on the street. Our tipster has contacted Spare Change as well as the Tuft’s Daily about Harrell and he was treated to the full-throated cricket chorus from both.<\/p>\n

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