Second+Lieutenant+Patrick+McKowenn

1986-1992
He was born in a small town just outside of Lancaster in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
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 * Patrick McKowen was born on December 30, 1961.

||  || Patrick McKowen served in the First Gulf War. This is referred to as Operation Desert Storm. ||  ||< This picture was taken at the Library of Congress. Patrick McKowen served in this war. He was a platoon commander. ||

Mr. McKowen served here. ||  || This is where Mr. McKowen served for the Operation desert storm. The plan was to keep Iraq from invading Saudi Arabia. ||  || This is the emblem from Officer's Candidate School. Mr. McKowen attended Officer's Candidate School to become an officer because he wanted to be in the infantry. ||
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 * This picture is of Okinawa, Japan.

Full transcript of Mr. McKowen's interview.

We would like to thank Mr. Bickel and Mrs. DelCollo for putting so much time, work and effort into planning the Veterans History Project for us, planning our trip to Washington D.C. and finally having our multimedia projects presented at this year's art show. We would also like to thank all involved in this such as Mrs. Noll and Mrs. Weddle. But, we would most like to thank Mr. McKowen for providing us with information on what it was like to be a veteran of the First Gulf War. Thank you very much.

Sincerely,

Andrew Weisbrodt

Ben Moyer