{"id":78434,"date":"2018-03-24T08:30:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T12:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78434"},"modified":"2018-03-24T08:02:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T12:02:24","slug":"frank-c-gaylord-ii-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78434","title":{"rendered":"Frank C. Gaylord II passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=78435\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78435\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Gaylord-1-300x230.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Gaylord-1-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Gaylord-1-768x588.png 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Gaylord-1-435x333.png 435w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Gaylord-1.png 865w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bobo sends us the sad news that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/timesargus\/obituary.aspx?n=frank-c-gaylord&#038;pid=188530756&#038;fhid=5634\">Frank C. Gaylord II passed<\/a> at the age of 93. He is best known as the sculptor of the figures at the Korean War Veterans Memorial. Reportedly, the faces of the men were actually taken from Gaylord&#8217;s sketches of the people he served with during World War II as a paratrooper with the 17th Airborne Division.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=78436\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78436\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Gaylord-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Gaylord-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Gaylord.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Born March 9, 1925, in Clarksburg, West Virginia, he was the son of Richard and Thelma (Hamilton) Gaylord.<\/p>\n<p>Frank graduated from Washington Irving High School in Clarksburg. Next, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served as a paratrooper in the 17th Airborne Division, Company C, 513th Parachute Infantry based out of Fort Meade, Maryland, before being honorably discharged with the Bronze Star for Valor Combat Infantryman&#8217;s Badge and Combat Paratroopers Badge. After his discharge, he went to Temple University on the GI Bill where he graduated in 1950 with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in fine arts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us the sad news that Frank C. Gaylord II passed at the age of &hellip; <a title=\"Frank C. Gaylord II passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78434\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Frank C. Gaylord II passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78434","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=78434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}