{"id":65556,"date":"2016-05-02T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65556"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:09","slug":"william-batho-is-not-a-former-pow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65556","title":{"rendered":"William Batho is not a former POW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65584\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65584\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Bathos1-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"William Bathos1\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Bathos1-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Bathos1-261x333.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Bathos1.jpg 501w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Another Pat found this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/dauzksdk\">GoFundMe tin cup<\/a> for William Batho written by his wife to take up funds to get her husband to the Vietnam Wall next year. I fully support their effort. However, in the plea, she says that her husband was a POW during the Vietnam War. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpaa.mil\/OurMissing\/VietnamWar\/VietnamWarPOWMIAList.aspx\">DPAA disagrees<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65558\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65558\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Batho-POW-List-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"Batho POW List\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Batho-POW-List-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Batho-POW-List-768x424.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Batho-POW-List-500x276.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Batho-POW-List.jpg 1329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He was indeed a veteran of the Vietnam War, a lineman in B Co. of the 36th Signal Battalion for 13 months Aug 1968 &#8211; September 1969, but, no, he wasn&#8217;t a POW;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65559\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65559\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Bathos-FOIA-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"William Bathos FOIA\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Bathos-FOIA-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Bathos-FOIA-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Bathos-FOIA.jpg 566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65560\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65560\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Batho-Assignments-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"William Batho Assignments\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Batho-Assignments-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Batho-Assignments-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Batho-Assignments-500x250.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Batho-Assignments-600x300.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Batho-Assignments.jpg 1329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So, yeah, give him as much money as you want, but know that you&#8217;re not giving to a POW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Pat found this GoFundMe tin cup for William Batho written by his wife to take &hellip; <a title=\"William Batho is not a former POW\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65556\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">William Batho is not a former POW<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65556","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\/65556","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=65556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}