During a moving, solemn ceremony Monday, the Route 50 service road was formally dedicated as Samuel Bowen Boulevard in memory of the 1983 graduate of Stephen Decatur High School who was killed July 7, 2004, when a rocket-propelled grenade exploded near his vehicle while he was serving with the National Guard in Irag.
According to the Department of Defense, Bowen was the 1,000th soldier to die during Operation Iraqi Freedom and the first native son of Worcester County to lose his life in Iraq.
Four of his military comrades from the 216th Engineer Battalion — who were with him the day he was killed — joined the crowd estimated at more than 200 people. The battalion’s chaplain gave the invocation.
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