Grand Old Partisan salutes Edward Rowny, born in Baltimore, April 3rd 1917. His father had immigrated from Poland and his mother’s parents were Polish. After studying engineering at Johns Hopkins, he became a West Point cadet.
Rowny commanded an infantry battalion against the Nazis. During the Korean War, he helped plan the Inchon Landing and oversaw rescue of a hundred thousand civilians from communists. His initiative led to helicopters being utilized heavily during the Vietnam War.
President Nixon appointed him representative to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. He later resigned due to President Carter’s appeasement of the Soviet Union. President Reagan made him chief nuclear arms negotiator. The citation of his Presidential Citizen Medal. "Rowny was one of the chief architects of peace through strength".
In 2014, the Prime Minister of South Korea awarded Rowny his nation’s highest military award. On his 100th birthday, he received a congratulatory visit from the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland.
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