{"id":44931,"date":"2019-11-06T15:57:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T18:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=44931"},"modified":"2026-05-09T09:33:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:33:44","slug":"the-vietnam-pows-would-tap-gbu-it-meant-god-bless-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/06\/the-vietnam-pows-would-tap-gbu-it-meant-god-bless-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vietnam POWs would tap “GBU”. It meant “God Bless You.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Retired Air Force Col Carlyle “Smitty” Harris was shot down over Vietnam on 4 April 1965. He spent nearly eight years as a Prisoner of War.<\/p>\n

He recently published a book entitled Tap Code<\/em>, based on the method of communication the POWs employed in the Hanoi Hilton. In an interview with the local Daily Journal in Tupelo, Harris said<\/a><\/p>\n

There were times \u2013 too many to count \u2013 when a prisoner was taken from his cell, beaten and tortured mercilessly and then tossed back into his cell.<\/p>\n

Those were the moments the tap code brought comfort and compassion, when other POWs would tap GBU, GBU \u2013 which means, God bless you, God Bless you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe Col Smitty — F-105 fighter pilot, POW, senior officer — could explain to Mikey Weinstein — former AF Captain and questionable\u00a0lawyer — what the Bible on the POW table means to him.<\/p>\n

Also at the Stars and Stripes<\/a> and the AFA Journal<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Retired Air Force Col Carlyle “Smitty” Harris was shot down over Vietnam on 4 April 1965. He spent nearly eight years as a Prisoner of War. He recently published a book entitled Tap Code, based on the method of communication the POWs employed in the Hanoi Hilton. In an interview with the local Daily Journal in Tupelo, Harris said There […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[23,6762,2169,3908,85,5218,7,2335,10,171,6763,90],"class_list":["post-44931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-bible","tag-carlyle-harris","tag-f-105","tag-hanoi-hilton","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-pow","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-tap-code","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44931"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46588,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44931\/revisions\/46588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}