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was a young man, faced eternity alone, as the plane riddled with bat- tle damage made its final plunge into the Coral Sea. His last moments we can only imagine. Today the wreck- age still rests where so many de- cades ago, the airman and his plane settled into soft sand at the bottom of the sea. That became the perma- nent resting spot for a hometown boy who gave us, his community and his nation the most precious gift that he could have given us: his life.
On Nov. 17 1943, Agnes Row- ell stood on a platform in Houston, Texas, with a bottle of champagne in her hand, surrounded by military officials, the press and well-wishers. Thinking back to the day she gave birth and first held the baby she named Richard, little did she know that the journey her son was to em- bark upon in life would have her speaking the words, “I now christen you the USS Rowell.” And with the breaking of the bottle on the bow, the spirit of her young son, whose body rested at the bottom of the sea so far away, slipped into the waters as a United States destroyer. A grateful nation remembered our hometown boy, but a nation can never replace
Above: The USS Rowell. Below: A Japanese Betty Bomber crashes into the sea after the engagement with the Navy’s VF-3, Feb. 20, 1942.
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