Local war veteran honored posthumously for his years of service in Korean War

Richard “Dick” Bowman, a Korean War veteran, was posthumously honored for his heroics that his son never knew about during his father’s life.

“I had no idea what kind of hero he was until he died,” Bowman’s son Charlie said. “A guy that served alongside my daddy many times in the same trench came to me at his funeral. He said … ‘I want to tell you, your daddy was one hell of a hero.’” “He told how he singlehandedly held off over 25,000 North Koreans and Chinese with nothing more than a .30 caliber machine gun, and that was to get 1,600 troops out of that area because they already killed off six of our divisions.”

For that action, Bowman received a Silver Star.