{"id":39748,"date":"2014-02-11T06:56:52","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T11:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39748"},"modified":"2014-02-11T11:25:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T16:25:54","slug":"gary-wayne-gilbert-taking-stolen-valor-to-the-grave-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39748","title":{"rendered":"Gary Wayne Gilbert; taking Stolen Valor to the grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36765\">Gary Wayne Gilbert<\/a> last July when Pat sent us his obituary. His family claimed that he was a POW of the Vietnam War in the obit, and we found some incidents of him publicly claiming to be a POW in addition to his Alabama POW license plates. Well, Mary sent us his FOIA yesterday, and there&#8217;s no mention of a POW medal;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=39749\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39749\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Gary-Wayne-Gilbert-FOIA-300x295.jpg?resize=300%2C295\" alt=\"Gary Wayne Gilbert FOIA\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Gary-Wayne-Gilbert-FOIA.jpg?resize=300%2C295&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Gary-Wayne-Gilbert-FOIA.jpg?resize=338%2C333&amp;ssl=1 338w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Gary-Wayne-Gilbert-FOIA.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But that didn&#8217;t stop the folks at Arlington from putting &#8220;Prisoner of War&#8221; on his headstone (marker 54-2108);<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=39750\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39750\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Gary-Wayne-Gilbert-Arlington-Headstone-224x300.jpg?resize=224%2C300\" alt=\"Gary Wayne Gilbert Arlington Headstone\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Gary-Wayne-Gilbert-Arlington-Headstone.jpg?resize=224%2C300&amp;ssl=1 224w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Gary-Wayne-Gilbert-Arlington-Headstone.jpg?resize=248%2C333&amp;ssl=1 248w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Gary-Wayne-Gilbert-Arlington-Headstone.jpg?w=956&amp;ssl=1 956w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Arlington has opened an inquiry (#146215) on the placement of the headstone, according to our friend Mike McGrath, a real Vietnam POW for more than 5 years in Hanoi, and if you&#8217;re interested in their progress on correcting this egregious error, you can call and ask Arlington how the inquiry is going at 1-877-907-8585.<\/p>\n<p>If you look at the FOIA, you&#8217;ll see he had a distinguished career and there was no need for him to pretend to be a POW, yet there it is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote about Gary Wayne Gilbert last July when Pat sent us his obituary. His family claimed that he was a POW of the Vietnam War in the obit, and we found some incidents of him publicly claiming to be a POW in addition to his Alabama POW license plates. 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