I'm honoring my Uncle Stowell. Stowell was the oldest of ten children and a student at the University of Maine at Farmington when he was drafted. Stowell was a role model to his younger siblings. He was helping to support his family and going to school full time. He had to help support his brothers and sisters because his father was killed just a few years before he was drafted. Stowell knew he wouldn't make it back from Korea alive. How sad for his mother and siblings who had just lost their husband/father so tragically. In reading his letters you can really get a sense of what a wonderful man Stowell was. He had a gentle kindness and love of life and family. I wish I had known him in life, though I do feel close to him just the same and know he is safe and happy with his father in Heaven.