Am I allowed to claim an Army Medal I qualify for but was not issued because I ETS'd out of the Army?

I was in the Army for 3 years and spent six months in Bosnia for the SFOR peace keeping mission. I left halfway during my units deployment to ETS out of the Army because my enlistment was up. Before I left I was issued the NATO Medal and Armed Forces Service Medal by my unit which are both on my DD-214. A few years after I left the Army vets from Bosnia were also awarded the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal in addition to the other two medals. The AFEM is not on my DD-214 and I do not have orders for the medal because I had already been out of the Army for a few years when they finally authorized the medal to Bosnia vets. I have sent in proof of my qualification to The National Personnel Records Center to have my DD-214 amended and to have the EFEM added but it has been several months and I have not heard anything back from the NPRC. My question is can I claim that I have an AFEM and more importantly I am making a shadow box of my Army medals and I want to include the AFEM in my shadow box but I don't want to put a medal in there I am not 100% sure belongs in there (although I meet all the criteria to qualify for the medal). Again, yes I am trying to get my DD-214 fixed. Any help from current or former military personnel would be great. Thanks!