{"id":92591,"date":"2019-11-11T09:49:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T13:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=92591"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:31:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:31:51","slug":"bob-glaves-stolen-valor-hurts-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92591","title":{"rendered":"Bob Glaves: Stolen Valor Hurts Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/glaves_icon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-91069\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/glaves_icon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/glaves_icon.jpg 286w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/glaves_icon-282x300.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greg Taylor of the Peninsula Daily News wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peninsuladailynews.com\/opinion\/point-of-view-stolen-valor-hurts-all-veterans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Point of View article<\/a> about how Veterans Day is special and he talks about a recent &#8220;development&#8221; in their community&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This summer, the Peninsula Daily News featured a front-page story about a Vietnam veteran riding his motorcycle to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. to pay homage to his fallen comrades. Because he was dying of cancer \u2014 the result of Agent Orange exposure \u2014 the trek was dubbed \u201cThe Wall Before I Die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To those familiar with the history of that war, the veteran\u2019s age and the dates he professed to have served in Vietnam, 1974 and 1975, just did not ring true.<\/p>\n<p>America had ceased large-unit combat operations by 1973.<\/p>\n<p>A FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request exposed the truth: the veteran had served but had never stepped foot in Vietnam \u2014 and certainly could not be dying of Agent Orange exposure.<\/p>\n<p>This development is laid out in great detail in a recent article by PDN reporter Jesse Major.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, lying about one\u2019s service is not uncommon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder who they are talking about?\u00a0 \u00a0Robert Glaves Jr?\u00a0 Surely his DD-214 would have arrived by now even if it was by Caribou, Yak or a dog sled.<\/p>\n<p>I guess ol&#8217; Bob thought by blurring a few entries on his DD-214 it would put it all behind him.\u00a0 Since he is a veteran, just not a Vietnam veteran, he can freely go into any Applebee&#8217;s and flash that bogus DD-214 with the dates blurred out and get a free meal.<\/p>\n<p>What about the donors?\u00a0 Did they ever get their money back?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peninsuladailynews.com\/opinion\/point-of-view-stolen-valor-hurts-all-veterans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Point of View<\/a>, Greg Taylor&#8230; and thank you for your military service to this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Taylor of the Peninsula Daily News wrote a Point of View article about how Veterans &hellip; <a title=\"Bob Glaves: Stolen Valor Hurts Everyone\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92591\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bob Glaves: Stolen Valor Hurts Everyone<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":91069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[392,408,183,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armyposer","category-stolen-valor","category-stolen-valor-act","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92591","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\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92592,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92591\/revisions\/92592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}