Homer Bowling now lives at Village Heights. | PHOTO BY MADISON NANTZ
“ Sometimes... they’ d tell us to get our steel pots on and carry our rifles,” he said.“ But the war wasn’ t going on when I was there.” Bowling served as a cannoneer with the 969th Field Artillery Battalion, a role that taught him both discipline and camaraderie.“ You learn to live with other people, to appreciate your buddies,” he said.“ When you’ re in the Army, you feel like you’ ve got helpers with you.” While his own service came during peacetime, his family had
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