{"id":93279,"date":"2019-12-09T08:05:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T12:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=93279"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:31:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:31:51","slug":"john-desomer-fake-pow-8-bronze-stars-4-purple-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=93279","title":{"rendered":"John DeSomer – Fake POW, 8 Bronze Stars, 4 Purple Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The folks at MilitaryPhony<\/a> send us their work on John Edward DeSomer.\u00a0 DeSomer died on November 7, 2019.\u00a0 His obituary got huge distribution across at least 9 newspapers and 3 online news services, if not more.<\/p>\n

The obituary raised some eyebrows with all the military accomplishments and DeSomer was not listed as a Prisoner of War on any of the databases.<\/p>\n

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So, based on the questionable P.O.W. claim people started asking questions about the eight (8) Bronze Stars and four (4) Purple Hearts.<\/p>\n

The National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) told a slightly different story.<\/p>\n

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So, according to DeSomer’s official military records held at the NPRC, DeSomer did not have a 20-year career, did not have assignments in Cambodia, Malaysia, Israel, Nicaragua, Columbia, Venezuela, Syria, and Afghanistan (and these are just the ones which he was willing to share stories about).<\/p>\n

Also, there was a Bronze Star, but not eight (8).\u00a0 There were no Purple Hearts, let alone four (4).<\/p>\n

And… as we already determined, he was not a P.O.W.<\/p>\n

He was the recipient of the NDSM.<\/p>\n

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