{"id":88413,"date":"2019-06-27T06:55:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T10:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=88413"},"modified":"2019-06-27T08:16:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T12:16:44","slug":"desautels-military-honors-questioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88413","title":{"rendered":"Desautels&#8217; Military Honors Questioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/desautels-cigarette.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-88302\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/desautels-cigarette-355x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/desautels-cigarette-355x333.jpg 355w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/desautels-cigarette-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/desautels-cigarette.jpg 523w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/desautels-medals-closeup.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-88414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/desautels-medals-closeup-409x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/desautels-medals-closeup-409x333.jpg 409w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/desautels-medals-closeup-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/desautels-medals-closeup.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Telegram.com wrote a followup article titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegram.com\/news\/20190626\/leicester-vet-questioned-on-military-honors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leicester vet questioned on military honors.<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As you may recall, This Ain&#8217;t Hell initially reported about Kenneth Desautels <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88301\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the few cases where a journalist both did the right thing as well as being highly accurate in the reporting.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dave Hardin, a retired Marine who helps run the website militaryphony.com, said it is important to call out false claims to awards out of respect for those who earned them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf anybody can claim honorable military service, then there is no honor left in military service,\u201d he said, adding that the situation is particularly offensive to SEALs who died in combat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There sounds like there will be an investigation by the Veterans&#8217; organization.<\/p>\n<p>We call on Mr. Desautels to stop the charade and come clean with both his family and the others that were taken in by his false stories.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know who Mr. Desautels thinks he is fooling anymore.<\/p>\n<p>To just come clean would save a lot of people a lot of time and effort.\u00a0 This would be the honorable thing to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegram.com wrote a followup article titled &#8220;Leicester vet questioned on military honors.&#8221; As you may &hellip; <a title=\"Desautels&#8217; Military Honors Questioned\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88413\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Desautels&#8217; Military Honors Questioned<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":88414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,218,6,339,408,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fake-seal","category-feel-good-stories","category-media","category-phony-seal","category-stolen-valor","category-stolen-valor-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88413","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88415,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88413\/revisions\/88415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}