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LO 05272021Cr Salute A tribute to those who have served during the U.S. War on Terror MAY 27, 2021 TABLE OF CONTENTS ★ ★ ★ ABOUT THE PROTECT & LEAD Former Camp Atterbury commander recalls terror attacks PAGE 3 FAITH & FORTITUDE Chaplain provided support at Pentagon This weekend the Bartholomew County community will once again take PAGE 6 the time to honor its military veterans with various Memorial Day activities. A LIFE OF SERVICE Efforts will commence on Friday, as the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic’s Retired CPD officer free, annual SALUTE! concert will be held on the lawn next to the Bar- served in multiple wars tholomew County Memorial for Veterans and the county courthouse. PAGE 8 In conjunction with the concert, The Republic publishes an annual section ‘HEAR THE THUNDER’ » The man responsible for dedicated to veterans also called SALUTE. The project aims to tell the sto- SALUTE’s military might loves the ries of those who served their country. patriotic noise PAGE 10 This year’s section features veterans that have served during the U.S. War on Terror, as Sept. 11, 2021 will mark 20 years since the start of the interna- COMMITMENT & tional military campaign. SACRIFICE Army veteran filled variety We hope that you take the time to honor a veteran this weekend, and of roles in 32 years thank you for helping make SALUTE! a success every year. PAGE 15 — Jordan Morey, assistant managing editor AMBITION Pillar felt destined to serve in military PAGE 16 MENTORSHIP Vet’s 27 years of service shaped post- military life PAGE 18 SALUTE! CONCERT FULL CIRCLE Columbus has always been home for Also inside this section is a four-page retired Air Force colonel pullout for the annual SALUTE! concert PAGE 20 A FREE Community Concert to Honor Our Veterans on Friday, May 28. COVID FRIDAY MAY 28, 2021 * 7:00 PM RECOMMENDATIONS: WHAT TO KNOW Second and Washington Street, Columbus, IN on the grounds of BEFORE YOU GO: the Bartholomew County Memorial for Veterans. • Th e Columbus Indiana (Rain Location: Erne Auditorium – Columbus North High School) Philharmonic is limited to PAGES 11-14 Th ere will be four zones designated for 250 people each. 1000 attendees. You will receive a colored wristband when you enter the zone. • Social distancing is highly ‘NO HESITATION’ recommended. Ground and Food Concessions Open at 5pm • Masks are requested when away from your group. Military roots run deep in Guard Premier sponsors: • Please do not set up chairs or blankets in seating Columbus Indiana Philharmonic areas prior to 5:00 p.m. Board of Directors Dave and Jo McKinney recruiter’s family City of Columbus Bartholomew County Commissioners PAGE 22 IN-35075784 PAGE 2 | MAY 27, 2021 SALUTE ★ 9/11 20th Anniversary MICHAEL MCGOWEN | ARMY STORY BY CECELIA ELLIS | PHOTOS BY JANA JONES PR OTECT & Former Atterbury commander recalls terror attacks Since 1942, it has been the business of Camp Atterbury to prepare for war; but on the morning of Sep. 11, 2001, nobody had expected that the U.S. would be at war by noon. “It was a quiet morning — an unusually quiet morning in the headquarters. I was working away at my desk without a clue anything irregular was happening,” said Keep yourretired crop Col. Michael workingMcGowen, former commander for of Camp Atterbury. “We had been extremely busy all summer. I think we did around 700,000 training days and several you, even» afterspecial events during theKeep the year harvest. leadingyour up tocrop 9/11. Everyone working was busy wrapping for up you,reports even when the after phone rang.” the harvest. (SEE LEAD PAGE 4) Edward Jones can help youEdward create Jones a strategycan help you create a strategy designed to help you reachdesigned your financialto help you reach goals. your financial goals. Stop by or contact me to schedule a Stop by or contact mefinancial to schedule review. a financial review. David E Weiss Financial Advisor www.edwardjones.com . Member SIPC 713 Third St David E Weiss Columbus, IN 47201 Financial Advisor www.edwardjones.com812-375-9160 . 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It was from her granddaughter, Rachael, telling her she needed to turn on the TV because “something really crazy was going on in New York.” “We turned on the TV and saw the plane (crash into) the side of the north tower of the World Trade Center. I thought it must be a terrible accident until, as we were watching, the second plane ran into the south tower,” Mc- Gowen said. “It was pretty clear then that something else was going on.” A certified professional engineer, McGowen watched in horror as the fires spread in the towers. “I was pretty sure the way the planes hit combined with the heat of the fires that the buildings would come down,” McGowen said. “In a way, it showed the buildings were very well built or they would have come down sooner. Still, it was sickening to see them fall. All those people inside, all those firemen and women and police who went in just trying to help, all of them gone.” After President George W. Bush announced the United States was “at war,” a third plane hit the Pentagon and another crashed in a Pennsyl- vania field. Col. Michael P. McGowen is pictured with his wife Janie at his home in Scipio. “We watched it unfold on television, but I still had no clear information on became the site of one of the largest component status (part-time) in both McGowen also worked as the chairman what we should expect next,” Mc- military hospitals in the nation, and the Air National Guard and Army of the National Board of Training Gowen said. “I remember thinking we operated as a POW camp for enemy National Guard. Centers. had to watch everything and everyone soldiers captured during the war. Following graduation, McGowen “I learned a lot about how a training because anything could happen next.” Following WWII, Atterbury was accepted a full-time position with the center should be operated,” McGowen As the facility manager and mili- closed until 1950 when it was reopened Indiana State Board of Health. said. tary commander of Camp Atterbury, for the Korean War. In 1981, he reported for his first tour It would be the job McGowen’s it was McGowen’s responsibility to By 1954, it was closed again and sat at Camp Atterbury and served as an military unit to operate Atterbury on protect Camp Atterbury’s 40,000 acres deserted until 1969 when the National engineer for four years. In 1984, Mc- a full-time basis if the post was ever of property and assets. It was also his Guard took control of most of the Gowen transferred to the Indiana Air activated for the purpose of mobilizing and training soldiers for active duty in responsibility to protect and lead the installation. Guard and accepted a job at Hulman Field in Terre Haute. an emergency. civilian and military personnel who For 30 years, the Guard worked to McGowen served at Hulman Field “Soon after I arrived at Camp Atter- worked there. rebuild Camp Atterbury as a training until 1988 when he transferred to bury as the commander, I decided to “I remember thinking about the site for all branches of the military the Army National Guard. He then have an exercise designed to prepare Camp Atterbury motto ‘preparamus,’ service and civilian first responders. served at Camp Atterbury until 1993 everyone to mobilize the post,” Mc- which means ‘we are ready,’ and I By the turn of the 21st Century, At- before transferring to Stout Field in Gowen said. “Really, I formulated the prayed we were ready for whatever terbury was one of the three largest Indianapolis. exercise to bring everyone together to might come next,” he said. military training centers in the nation. As a civilian engineer, McGowen work for a common goal. A historic post Rising to the top held numerous positions before being “As it happened though, if we had not Carved from 40,000 acres of south- McGowen graduated from Rose- appointed as the civilian manager of participated in that exercise, I am not central Indiana farmland — spanning Hulman Institute of Technology in Atterbury in October of 1999. sure we would have been ready to meet three counties — Camp Atterbury was Terre Haute in 1976. Having completed McGowen was simultaneously ap- the demands that followed 9/11.” built in 1942 as an U.S. Army post. ROTC, McGowen was commissioned as pointed as the military commander of A major response During WWII, more than 250,000 a second lieutenant in the U. S. Army Atterbury in April of 2000. He arrived Camp Atterbury was not activated Army soldiers were trained for combat Reserve. as a lieutenant colonel and was soon immediately following 9/11, but at the facility.
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