{"id":36765,"date":"2013-07-24T10:05:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T14:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36765"},"modified":"2013-07-24T16:17:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T20:17:02","slug":"gary-wayne-gilbert-taking-stolen-valor-to-the-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36765","title":{"rendered":"Gary Wayne Gilbert; taking Stolen Valor to the grave (UPDATED)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pat sends us this obit from a funeral home in Dothan Alabama and republished in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/dothaneagle\/obituary.aspx?n=gary-wayne-gilbert&#038;pid=165991395&#038;fhid=6328#sthash.0gtJb2u5.dpbs\">Dothan Eagle<\/a> about Gary Wayne Gilbert, a former Army Major and OH6A pilot in Vietnam;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=36766\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36766\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gary-Wayne-Gilbert-obit-231x300.jpg?resize=231%2C300\" alt=\"Gary Wayne Gilbert obit\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gary-Wayne-Gilbert-obit.jpg?resize=231%2C300&amp;ssl=1 231w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gary-Wayne-Gilbert-obit.jpg?resize=256%2C333&amp;ssl=1 256w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gary-Wayne-Gilbert-obit.jpg?w=742&amp;ssl=1 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>See the part about being a POW for three years? That&#8217;s BS according to Mary. I know you&#8217;ll be tempted to blame the family, but Gilbert had POW plates on his automobile,  Alabama #1444. He did serve from 1966 to 1986 and retired as a Major, but I guess the POW thing made him sexier. He also claimed that he was special ops (who went to Vietnam and wasn&#8217;t?), but he flew Navy forward observers for indirect fire support, which I guess is pretty special, but I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s what he meant to imply.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> According to some of our readers, you don&#8217;t have to be a POW to have POW plates, you just have to support POW\/MIA efforts, but we have some more screen shots of him claiming to be a POW;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=36773\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36773\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gary-Wayne-Gilbert-the-POW-300x293.jpg?resize=300%2C293\" alt=\"Gary Wayne Gilbert the POW\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gary-Wayne-Gilbert-the-POW.jpg?resize=300%2C293&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gary-Wayne-Gilbert-the-POW.jpg?resize=340%2C333&amp;ssl=1 340w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gary-Wayne-Gilbert-the-POW.jpg?w=985&amp;ssl=1 985w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=36774\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36774\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gary-Wayne-Gilbert-interview-300x291.jpg?resize=300%2C291\" alt=\"Gary Wayne Gilbert interview\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gary-Wayne-Gilbert-interview.jpg?resize=300%2C291&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gary-Wayne-Gilbert-interview.jpg?resize=343%2C333&amp;ssl=1 343w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gary-Wayne-Gilbert-interview.jpg?w=613&amp;ssl=1 613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat sends us this obit from a funeral home in Dothan Alabama and republished in the Dothan Eagle about Gary Wayne Gilbert, a former Army Major and OH6A pilot in Vietnam; See the part about being a POW for three years? That&#8217;s BS according to Mary. I know you&#8217;ll be tempted to blame the family, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-9yZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36765","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=36765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}