{"id":65711,"date":"2016-05-11T10:11:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T14:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65711"},"modified":"2016-05-11T19:15:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T23:15:14","slug":"william-grahame-wilkin-iii-forgotten-for-a-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65711","title":{"rendered":"William Grahame Wilkin III; forgotten for a reason"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of our ninjas send us this article about William Grahame Wilkin III<\/a> (he’s so important, he needs two Facebook pages<\/a>); ‘Forgotten’ POW\/MIA logo creator satisfied with losing the battle, but winning the war<\/a> (the article was yanked today);<\/p>\n

Wilkin will be the guest speaker at the Vets Week kickoff at 5 p.m. Monday, May 23, in the atrium of the Richard and Gina Santori Public Library of Aurora, 101 S. River St. He will present the meaning behind the POW\/MIA Fallen Comrade table that will be on display.<\/p>\n

Wilkin entered an art contest sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars as a Glenbard South High School junior in 1983. His entry wasn’t the winner, but his design did go on to become the highly-recognizable image on the black and white flags that fly on flagpoles across the country. How it happened, he doesn’t really know.<\/p>\n

His third-place artwork was, unbeknown to him, appropriated for use on the POW\/MIA flag. Congress voted to make it an official flag of the United States in the late 1980s.<\/p>\n

“They took the drawing and they cleaned it up, because it was high school work,” Wilkin said. “I put ‘I Believe They Are Still Alive’ on it. They changed it to ‘We Will Never Forget’.”<\/p>\n

But someone did forget to tell Wilkin that it was his design that eventually became one of the most recognizable logos in the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe William’s contribution was forgotten because the flag was designed 11 years before he says that he first drew it, according to Wikipedia<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The original design for the flag was created by Newt Heisley in 1972. The National League of Families then-national coordinator, POW wife Evelyn Grubb, oversaw its development and also campaigned to gain its widespread acceptance and use by the United States government and also local governments and civilian organizations across the United States<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess it was too tough for the author, Amy Roth or the public library to do a simple Wiki search. Newt Heisley<\/a>, the real designer of the flag died in 2009 at the age of 88.<\/p>\n

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Wilkin has been at this scam for a while;<\/p>\n

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