{"id":76666,"date":"2017-12-20T11:57:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T16:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76666"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:46:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:46:31","slug":"jorge-taitano-phony-pow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76666","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Taitano; phony POW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=76667\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76667\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Taintano.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76667\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Someone sent us their work on this fellow, Jorge Taitano who claims to be a former Prisoner of War. In fact, he joined the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdpow.org\/\">American Ex-Prisoners of War Chapter 1<\/a> in San Diego, which got his name inscribed with other real POWs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/military\/sdut-petco-park-seat-forever-empty-in-honor-of-pows-2016jul03-story.html\">at PETCO Field<\/a> where he was feted by the San Diego Padres;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=76668\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76668\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Padres-328x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-76668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Padres-328x333.jpg 328w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Padres-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Padres.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=76669\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76669\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/POWs-and-Padres-500x303.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"303\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-76669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/POWs-and-Padres-500x303.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/POWs-and-Padres-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/POWs-and-Padres-768x466.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/POWs-and-Padres.jpg 1086w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=76670\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76670\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jorge-Taitano-500x314.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-76670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jorge-Taitano-500x314.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jorge-Taitano-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jorge-Taitano.jpg 743w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He was a Marine from 1954 &#8211; 1958, but he wasn&#8217;t in combat. He did spend some time in the brig June-July 1956, but that doesn&#8217;t count. Neither does the time he spent hiding in a cave as a child on Guam while the Japanese soldiers were looking for him &#8211; that&#8217;s the story he tells folks. He claims that his parents were killed by the Japanese &#8211; that may be true, but his father died in 1990 and his mother in 2003 in San Diego, well after the Japanese occupation of Guam. Hiding in a cave isn&#8217;t being a prisoner, of war or otherwise.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=76671\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76671\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jorge-Taitano-FOIA-AA-257x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-76671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jorge-Taitano-FOIA-AA-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jorge-Taitano-FOIA-AA-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jorge-Taitano-FOIA-AA.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=76672\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76672\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jorge-Taitano-FOIA-Assignments-1-257x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-76672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jorge-Taitano-FOIA-Assignments-1-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jorge-Taitano-FOIA-Assignments-1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jorge-Taitano-FOIA-Assignments-1.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=76673\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76673\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jorge-Taitano-FOIA-Assignments-2-257x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-76673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jorge-Taitano-FOIA-Assignments-2-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jorge-Taitano-FOIA-Assignments-2-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jorge-Taitano-FOIA-Assignments-2.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=76674\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76674\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jorge-Taitano-FOIA-ROS-257x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-76674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jorge-Taitano-FOIA-ROS-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jorge-Taitano-FOIA-ROS-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jorge-Taitano-FOIA-ROS.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent us their work on this fellow, Jorge Taitano who claims to be a former &hellip; <a title=\"Jorge Taitano; phony POW\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76666\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jorge Taitano; phony POW<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76666","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\/76666","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=76666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}