This valiant soul
served our Nation under five Presidents, of both parties. He served under the command of General Douglas MacArthur and rose to
be a shining general in his own right, a brave guardian of liberty
through courage, sacrifice, expertise, and wisdom. General Rowny was born the son of a Polish immigrant and a Polish-
American mother on April 3, 1917. A West Point graduate, he served in
World War II and led a battalion with the 92nd Army Infantry Division,
driving up the west coast of Italy. He remained a dogged ally of then-occupied Poland and the Polish
people and advanced the return of the remains of Ignacy Jan Paderewski
to Poland in 1992 after the fall of the Berlin Wall 3 years earlier.
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