Walter Eugene Fowler Sr

This website outlines the conditions to receive a purple heart, as well as historic figures in the past who came to bear the ribbon.

https://www.uso.org/stories/2276-8-purple-heart-facts#:~:text=The%20Purple%20Heart%20medal%20is,in%20the%20line%20of%20duty

This is an article outlining Walter Eugene Fowler's earning of the Purple Heart award, and thus connecting him to possible causes of PTSD.

https://www.sonsoflibertymuseum.org/usmarinecorps/1stmarinedivisionww2/walter-eugene-fowler-f687662.cfm

Ancestry.com gives a brief history of Walter Eugene Fowler Sr including birth and death dates, what his gravestone looks like, and where he was most likely to have carried on living after serving in the Marines.

            -https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/77680340:60525?_phsrc=tAP7&_phstart=successSource&gsfn=Walter&gsln=Fowler&ml_rpos=14&queryId=a165a87c2984f815dd6fd8a904532e6a  

Walter Eugene Fowler Sr, born February 4^th 1922, served time in the Marine Corp during the conflict in Guadalcanal in World War two. Though it is not specified, there is probable cause to link him to PTSD given his Purple Heart being tied frequently to combat exposure, and his time in one of the most crucial points in the Pacific theater of World War two. Also given his place of death in Cumming City Cemetery, it places him in very close proximity to Dahlonega GA, a known long-standing home of UNG Dahlonega, a heavily military-oriented city. The probability that Mr. Fowler found himself in and or around the Dahlonega area is high which finds him as a vital contribution to not only the history of Dahlonega, but its association with the re-integration of veterans into the civilian community. Fowler died January 9^th 1979 in Forsyth County.¹