Retired U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Howard Brown beams with pride when he thinks of his love for his country and family, but also the countless students whose lives and careers he helped shape as a longtime Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps instructor.
“I was sitting in the yard, playing and I [saw] him walk there with that suit on and that was me. That was me. I mean, right then. I wanted to be a soldier. That was it.” At only eight …