{"id":1959,"date":"2013-09-11T10:49:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T14:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2025-12-10T10:38:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:38:55","slug":"1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2013\/09\/11\/1959\/","title":{"rendered":"Stowers &#8217;14 Inspires Wabash on 9-11"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1960\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1960\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/09\/ChapelShot500.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1960 size-full\" title=\"ChapelShot500\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/09\/ChapelShot500.jpg\" alt=\"photo of college mall and chapel\" width=\"500\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/09\/ChapelShot500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/09\/ChapelShot500-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wabash College Mall and Chapel &#8211; 9-11-13<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1961\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1961\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/09\/FlagShot.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1961 size-full\" title=\"FlagShot\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/09\/FlagShot.jpg\" alt=\"photo of the mall flag\" width=\"250\" height=\"670\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mall flag, moments after Stowers had lowered it as he did a year ago.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Howard W. Hewitt<\/em> &#8211; We have told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/news\/displaystory.cfm?news_ID=9774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the story of senior Josh Stowers<\/a>, commuter, husband, father, and Wabash Man, on several occasions. He is a citizen-soldier who did three tours of duty in Iraq before enrolling at Wabash.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1962\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1962\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/09\/Stowers100.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1962 size-full\" title=\"Stowers100\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/09\/Stowers100.jpg\" alt=\"Stowers '14 photo\" width=\"100\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stowers &#8217;14<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/news\/displaystory.cfm?news_ID=9597\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Last year he was on the mal<\/a>l for the 9-11 memorial program and emotionally shared his feelings on the difficult day.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, 9-11,13, I walked to the mall to shoot the student memorial of American flags spelling out 9-11. As I turned to return to my end of campus, here comes Josh Stowers.<\/p>\n<p>After a pleasant hello and how you doing, Josh said \u201cthey never think to lower the flag on this day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked down the mall to see the flag was lowered, looked at Josh and asked if he had lowered it. Indeed, he had \u2013 for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t read his story by now click on the links embedded in this post. He is one inspiring Wabash man.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard W. Hewitt &#8211; We have told the story of senior Josh Stowers, commuter, husband, father, and Wabash Man, on several occasions. 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