{"id":26835,"date":"2011-10-04T19:27:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T23:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26835"},"modified":"2011-10-04T19:27:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T23:27:58","slug":"the-final-nail-in-the-coffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26835","title":{"rendered":"The final nail in the coffin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We first wrote about Wilburn &#8220;Wild Bill&#8221; Carr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26475\">a few weeks ago<\/a> on a tip from CavRick who sent us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/gastongazette\/obituary.aspx?n=wilburn-carr-wild-bill&amp;pid=153540199\">this obituary notice<\/a> about his daring-do in Korea. SUpposedly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26475#comment-542703\">his grandson showed up<\/a> and chastised us severely for being cynical assholes (yes, I am). SOmeone else <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26483\">sent these articles from the same paper<\/a> which published the obit.<\/p>\n<p>And now as a final nail in Wilburn Carr&#8217;s coffin, the folks at POW NEtwork have come through with a FOIA of WIlburn&#8217;s military service;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Wilburn-Carr-FOIA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-26836\" title=\"Wilburn Carr FOIA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Wilburn-Carr-FOIA-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Wilburn-Carr-FOIA-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Wilburn-Carr-FOIA-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Wilburn-Carr-FOIA.jpg 1129w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No Purple Heart&#8230;no decorations at all, no 101st Airborne Division, two years of service that began more than two years after the shooting stopped in Korea. Yeah, I&#8217;m a big cynical asshole. I wonder why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We first wrote about Wilburn &#8220;Wild Bill&#8221; Carr a few weeks ago on a tip from &hellip; <a title=\"The final nail in the coffin\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26835\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The final nail in the coffin<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}