{"id":61001,"date":"2015-07-24T07:57:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T11:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61001"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:34:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:34:14","slug":"charles-jenkins-phony-vietnam-vetpow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61001","title":{"rendered":"Charles Jenkins; phony POW"},"content":{"rendered":"

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AverageNCO found this guy Charles Jenkins<\/a> in a news story<\/a> about a Confederate flag rally in Jacksonville, Florida;<\/p>\n

“I spent 3 years, 9 months and 27 days as a POW in Vietnam,” said Charles Jenkins, a veteran and supporter of the Confederate flag. “So this hat gives me a right to fly this flag.”<\/p>\n

Jenkins said his being there was not about the flag, but about the freedom he fought and nearly died for years ago.<\/p>\n

“I don’t care if they wanted to come here and fly an African-American flag on that bridge today I would’ve backed them up, if they wanted to fly a gay flag I would’ve backed them up, they want to fly an ISIS flag I do have a problem with that one.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, first of all, he’s not listed at DPAA<\/a>, the Defense Department’s website for their list of POWs. None of the “Accounted For” Army POWs are named Jenkins. He was indeed a Vietnam veteran, and he earned a Purple Heart and an ARCOM with a valor device as well as a Combat Infantry Badge and jump wings, but he wasn’t a POW for three years;<\/p>\n

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AverageNCO found this guy Charles Jenkins in a news story about a Confederate flag rally in Jacksonville, Florida; “I spent 3 years, 9 months and 27 days as a POW in Vietnam,” said Charles Jenkins, a veteran and supporter of the Confederate flag. “So this hat gives me a right to fly this flag.” Jenkins […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Charles-Jenkins.jpg?fit=316%2C499&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-fRT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}