{"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:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65556","title":{"rendered":"William Batho is not a former POW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=65584\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65584\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Bathos1-235x300.jpg?resize=235%2C300\" alt=\"William Bathos1\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Bathos1.jpg?resize=235%2C300&amp;ssl=1 235w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Bathos1.jpg?resize=261%2C333&amp;ssl=1 261w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Bathos1.jpg?w=501&amp;ssl=1 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=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=65558\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65558\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Batho-POW-List-300x165.jpg?resize=300%2C165\" alt=\"Batho POW List\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Batho-POW-List.jpg?resize=300%2C165&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Batho-POW-List.jpg?resize=768%2C424&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Batho-POW-List.jpg?resize=500%2C276&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Batho-POW-List.jpg?w=1329&amp;ssl=1 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=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=65559\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65559\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Bathos-FOIA-232x300.jpg?resize=232%2C300\" alt=\"William Bathos FOIA\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Bathos-FOIA.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Bathos-FOIA.jpg?resize=257%2C333&amp;ssl=1 257w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Bathos-FOIA.jpg?w=566&amp;ssl=1 566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=65560\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65560\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Batho-Assignments-300x150.jpg?resize=300%2C150\" alt=\"William Batho Assignments\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Batho-Assignments.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Batho-Assignments.jpg?resize=768%2C384&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Batho-Assignments.jpg?resize=500%2C250&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Batho-Assignments.jpg?resize=600%2C300&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Batho-Assignments.jpg?w=1329&amp;ssl=1 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 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 DPAA disagrees; He was indeed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Bathos1.jpg?fit=501%2C639&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-h3m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65556","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=65556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}