{"id":11975,"date":"2014-07-07T13:58:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T17:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crusadeforchildren.org\/?p=11975"},"modified":"2014-07-07T13:58:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T17:58:46","slug":"veteran-says-give-money-to-the-crusade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/2014\/07\/07\/veteran-says-give-money-to-the-crusade\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran says “give money to the Crusade”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From our flagship station WHAS11:<\/p>\n

EMINENCE, Ky. (WHAS11) \u2013 A disabled veteran\u2019s flag was destroyed outside his Eminence, Ky. home two weeks ago. He was so upset at this act; he took his frustration to YouTube. <\/p>\n

\u201cI had my flag proudly displayed outside my house. I’m outside cutting my grass and what do I find? That last night somebody cut my flag to pieces. That cuts my heart, that is my heart,\u201d veteran Charles \u201cPoppy\u201d Turner, Sr. said. <\/p>\n

Turner posted the video looking for answers, but found a community of patriotism. He says he\u2019s received thousands of Facebook friend requests and well-wishes from around the world. <\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s all been thank you for your service and I put a smiley face on there or say some little thing. It\u2019s kind of hard to respond to every single one, but I’m trying,\u201d Turner said. <\/p>\n

One person was so moved by the video they started a fundraiser \u201cFlag Pole for Poppy\u201d. Turner said with or without donations he will save up to get that pole. <\/p>\n

\u201cI want to put it right there in the middle of the driveway and that way. It\u2019s going to be out flying for everyone in Eminence to see and if they want to cut it, they’ve got to climb a 30 foot poll to do it,\u201d Turner said. <\/p>\n

Turner was clear he does not want anyone to send him money. He says that is not what this is about, he wants an apology. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about the flag not about the money; it\u2019s about doing the right thing. If somebody wants to send money, send it to the Crusade for Children<\/strong> or your favorite charity. Don’t send it to me because I will send it back,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

If you are interested in helping buy the flagpole call Oates Flag at 502-267-8200 or email sales@oatesflag.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From our flagship station WHAS11: EMINENCE, Ky. (WHAS11) \u2013 A disabled veteran\u2019s flag was destroyed outside his Eminence, Ky. home two weeks ago. He was so upset at this act; he took his frustration to YouTube. \u201cI had my flag proudly displayed outside my house….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}