{"id":1092,"date":"2012-02-08T03:03:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T03:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2012-02-08T03:24:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T03:24:28","slug":"moss-wiley-barry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/moss-wiley-barry\/","title":{"rendered":"MOSS, Wiley Barry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/files\/2011\/10\/MossSp4WileyBarry-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-612\" src=\"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/files\/2011\/10\/MossSp4WileyBarry-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/MossSp4WileyBarry-1.jpg 244w, https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/MossSp4WileyBarry-1-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 85vw, 244px\" \/><\/a>Sp4 Wiley Barry Moss<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Birth: Aug. 23, 1947 Rockingham Richmond Co., NC<\/p>\n<p>Death: Apr. 1, 1969 Bin Duong, Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>Sp4 Wiley Barry Moss, Vietnam Veteran native of Charlotte, North Carolina was 21 years old and was not married. It was reported that Wiley died from an undetermined accident. His body was recovered.<\/p>\n<p>His nephew recalls that Wiley was one of nineteen children fathered by T.K. Moss, of Rockingham, NC; he was the youngest boy. Even though his nephew was three years older than him they laughed about him being my uncle. He was described as a fine young man from a poor family with a lot of pride. He served with Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 33rd Artillery Regiment, 1st Infantry Division &#8220;Big Red One&#8221;. He was awarded The Purple Heart Medal for his combat related wounds, The Vietnam Service Medal, The Republic of Vietnam Campaign Service Medal, The National Defense Service Medal and The Good Conduct Medal.<\/p>\n<p>Burial:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/maps\/explore\/?org=aj&amp;FORM=LMIEMN#5003\/0.6002=l:1717+E+Broad+Ave,+Rockingham,+NC:lat:34.9197088949618:long:-79.746286:nosp:0:adj:0&amp;o=&amp;a=0\/5872\/style=auto&amp;lat=ptm099&amp;lon=8bn5bb&amp;alt=48.107319&amp;z=17&amp;pid=5874\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond County Memorial Park<\/a>\u00a0Rockingham, Richmond Co., NC.<\/p>\n<p><cite>(Source: Posted with permission of Tom &amp; Jim Reece, #46857744;\u00a0<q>finding NC Vietnam KIA\/MIA&#8217;s gravesites<\/q>; Reconfigured and submitted by: Ron Yates)<\/cite><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/files\/2011\/10\/MossSp4WileyBarry-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-613\" src=\"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/files\/2011\/10\/MossSp4WileyBarry-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"671\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/MossSp4WileyBarry-2.jpg 671w, https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/MossSp4WileyBarry-2-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sp4 Wiley Barry Moss Birth: Aug. 23, 1947 Rockingham Richmond Co., NC Death: Apr. 1, 1969 Bin Duong, Vietnam. Sp4 Wiley Barry Moss, Vietnam Veteran native of Charlotte, North Carolina was 21 years old and was not married. It was reported that Wiley died from an undetermined accident. His body was recovered. His nephew recalls &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/moss-wiley-barry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MOSS, Wiley Barry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5468],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vietnam-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}