{"id":383309,"date":"2021-12-19T19:07:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T16:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-true-story-behind-a-journal-for-jordan\/"},"modified":"2021-12-19T19:07:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T16:07:43","slug":"the-true-story-behind-a-journal-for-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-true-story-behind-a-journal-for-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"#The True Story Behind A Journal for Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3845d508380\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3845d508380\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-true-story-behind-a-journal-for-jordan\/#Preparing_For_Deployment_and_for_the_Worst\" >Preparing For Deployment, and for the Worst<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-true-story-behind-a-journal-for-jordan\/#Charles_Monroe_Kings_Life_of_Service\" >Charles Monroe King\u2019s Life of Service<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-true-story-behind-a-journal-for-jordan\/#A_Journal_Full_of_Wisdom_and_Memories\" >A Journal Full of Wisdom and Memories<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-true-story-behind-a-journal-for-jordan\/#The_Love_at_the_Heart_of_A_Journal_for_Jordan\" >The Love at the Heart of A Journal for Jordan<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#The True Story Behind A Journal for Jordan<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<pre><code>     &lt;span class=\"mx-1\"&gt;Michael B. Jordan stars in the movie as 1st Sergeant Charles Monroe King, a war hero who left behind a journal full of advice for his son.&lt;\/span&gt;\n&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;div id=\"\"&gt;\n\n\n\n                &lt;figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> \"&gt;\n            &lt;img width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/A-Journal-for-Jordan.jpeg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"A Journal For Jordan true story\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/A-Journal-for-Jordan.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/A-Journal-for-Jordan-768x513.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/&gt;                                    &lt;p&gt;\n                    &lt;span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\"&gt;Sony Pictures&lt;\/span&gt;\n\n                        &lt;\/figure&gt;\n\n    &lt;!-- START BYLINE --&gt;\n    &lt;div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\"&gt;\n        By\u00a0Will DiGravio\u00a0\u00b7 Published on December 19th, 2021 \n        &lt;\/div&gt;\n    &lt;!-- END BYLINE --&gt;\n\n    &lt;em&gt;Real Stories is a column about the true stories behind <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> and TV shows. It\u2019s that simple. This installment focuses on the tragic and beautiful true story behind A Journal for Jordan.\u00a0&lt;\/em&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<hr\/>\n<p>An article, then a memoir, and now a movie directed by <strong>Denzel Washington<\/strong>. That is the evolution of <em><strong>A Journal for Jordan<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The story is so tragic and beautiful that it\u2019s hard to believe it is based on real events. In 2006, <strong>1st Sergeant Charles Monroe King\u00a0<\/strong>(played by <strong>Michael B. Jordan<\/strong> in the movie) was killed in action near Baghdad. He left behind <strong>Dana Canedy<\/strong> (played by <strong>Chant\u00e9 Adams<\/strong>), his partner of eight years, and their six-month-old son, Jordan. King had also written a 200-page journal, full of advice and memories, for his son to have in the event that he did not return from Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Here are more details of the true story behind the movie <em>A Journal for Jordan<\/em>:<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Preparing_For_Deployment_and_for_the_Worst\"><\/span>Preparing For Deployment, and for the Worst<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Dana Canedy, an accomplished journalist who is currently an executive at Simon &amp; Schuster, first told the story of Charles Monroe King and his journal in <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/01\/01\/us\/01charles.html\">a 2007 article for the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>. King boarded a plane for Iraq in December 2005, and Canedy begins the article with his final actions in the United States, noting he:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cdrew pictures of himself with angel wings. He left a set of his dog tags on a nightstand in my Manhattan apartment. He bought a tiny blue sweat suit for our baby to wear home from the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Then, Canedy writes, King set out to work on what would become the journal for Jordan. In July of the next year, he mailed the incomplete work to her. Days prior, King recovered the body of one of his soldiers from a tank. The death, Canedy writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cshook Charles so deeply that he wanted to send it even though he had more to say.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The next month, King took a two-week leave to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> home and meet Jordan, then five months old, for the first time. Canedy writes that King:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cwas so intoxicated by love for his son that he barely slept, instead keeping vigil over the baby.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Charles_Monroe_Kings_Life_of_Service\"><\/span>Charles Monroe King\u2019s Life of Service<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>On October 14, 2006, 1st Sergeant Charles Monroe King was killed after an improvised explosive device detonated near his armored vehicle. He was 48 years old, and one month away from completing his tour of duty.<\/p>\n<p>King first enlisted in 1987. A \u201cgifted artist\u201d who had trained at the Art Institute of Chicago, Canedy writes, he found fulfillment as a solider and was deeply loyal to those with whom he served. On the night of the baby shower for Jordan, during his two-week leave, King spent much of the evening worrying about his soldiers in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>In the lead-up to his deployment, Canedy says they talked often about the dangers he would face. She writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe never said aloud that the fear that he might not return was why we decided to have a child before we planned a wedding, rather than risk never having the chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>King missed Jordan\u2019s birth because he refused to take leave before all of his own soldiers had a chance to go home. The family later learned that King had volunteered for the mission on which he died in Iraq. Canedy writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAlthough he was not required to join the resupply convoy in Baghdad, he believed that his soldiers needed someone experienced with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After King\u2019s death, his father, Charlie J. King, blamed himself for not urging his son to avoid unnecessary risks. But such overtures probably would not have swayed King. As quoted by Canedy in the <em>New York Times<\/em> article, he said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHe was a born leader. And he believed what he was doing was right.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_Journal_Full_of_Wisdom_and_Memories\"><\/span>A Journal Full of Wisdom and Memories<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In 2008, Dana Canedy turned her <em>New York <\/em><em>Times\u00a0<\/em>article into a memoir, <em>A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor. <\/em>In it, she shares passages from the journal that King wrote for his son. They vary in tone and subject. For example, he shares personal memories from his childhood: singing in the youth choir at church, rooting for the Cleveland Browns, and the story of his first kiss. King wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI walked her home after school and she thanked me by giving me a kiss. I was a little taken back by it. Being in the eighth grade, it was a big step for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There are other times when the journal gets more serious, and King gives his son beautiful life advice:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBe humble about your accomplishments, work harder than the man next to you, it is all right for boys to cry. Sometimes crying can release a lot of pain and stress. Never be ashamed to cry. It has nothing to do with your manhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>King also reflected on life in combat. In the <em>Times\u00a0<\/em>article, Canedy shares a passage King wrote in April 2006, \u201cafter a roadside bombing remarkably similar to that which would claim him.\u201d King\u2019s soldiers, he wrote, did not want to attend a memorial for two soldiers because it was too \u201cdepressing.\u201d He told them they were being \u201cselfish.\u201d In his journal, he wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">\u201cThings may not always be easy or pleasant for you, that\u2019s life, but always pay your respects for the way people lived and what they stood for. It\u2019s the honorable thing to do.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Love_at_the_Heart_of_A_Journal_for_Jordan\"><\/span>The Love at the Heart of A Journal for Jordan<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Dana Canedy (and now the movie of <em>A Journal for Jordan<\/em>) also tells the true story of how she and Charles Monroe King fell in love. They first met in Canedy\u2019s hometown of Radcliff, Kentucky. At first, Canedy writes, she did not think he was her type:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHe was bashful, a homebody and got his <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> from television rather than newspapers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But eventually, she began to think through the list of traits she wanted in a partner and husband, and she realized that he fit them all:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHe was meticulous, even insisting on doing my ironing because he deemed my wrinkle-removing skills deficient. His rock-hard warrior\u2019s body made him <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ear tough, but he had a tender heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>King had a daughter from a previous marriage, Christina, whom he \u201cdoted on.\u201d Canedy, who was raised in a military family, initially resisted dating King. They had a long-distance romance and at times dated other people, but, Canedy writes in her memoir:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cUltimately, it was his steadiness, his character, and his sureness about who he was and what he stood for that won me over, something you will get to know by reading the journal.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And while King wrote the journal for Jordan, he included a letter for Canedy on the inside cover. In it, he wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0\u201cFor us, life will move on through Jordan. He will be an extension of us and hopefully everything that we stand for \u2026 I would like to see him grow up to be a man, but only God knows what the future holds.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em><strong>A Journal for Jordan opens in theaters on December 25, 2021<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<pre><code>    Related Topics: Real Stories\n    &lt;!-- AUTHOR BOX --&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<div class=\"gray-bg p-4 border small mb-5\">\n<div class=\"row align-items-center text-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-2\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/will.jpg\" class=\"circle img-fluid\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<p>            Will DiGravio began writing for Film School Rejects in 2018. 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