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Howie and Andrea Miller with daughters Makenzie and Jennifer) Howie Miller hopes, when his daughters are older, to make a trip to the National Museum of the Marine Corps, in northern Virginia, to see the sculpture a combat artist made of him during combat in Iraq. The statue will be part of a new 'post-Vietnam era' exhibit being put together at the museum. Above middle, This is a sculpture of Marine Howie Miller, a 2004 graduate of Chinook High. The sculpture, still being completed in the photo, was made by Mike Fay, a Marine Combat Artist. The statue will eventually be a part of a 'post-Vietnam era' exhibit at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia. While aware of the statue, Miller has yet to see the work.
By Steve Edwards
BCJ News
Reporter's note: Doug Hayes, the Chinook High teacher who guides trips to Washington, DC, was telling me about a visit he made to the National Museum of the Marine Corps. Not a regular stop on Hayes' trips to DC, he said, "There is a connection between the Marine Museum and Chinook. The Museum has a statue of Howie Miller when he was in Iraq." Hayes told, "The only time I was there Perry and Pauli Miller were on the trip, they wanted to go to the Museum to see the statue of their son, Howie. Someone with the Museum took them to the sculptor's studio, where the statue...
