Ceremony in Baltimore to Honor Fallen Soldier

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Phil Taylor

• SFC Collin Bowen

BALTIMORE, MD (03/04/2011)(readMedia)-- Artist Phil Taylor, founder of The American Fallen Soldiers Project, will be unveiling the portrait of fallen soldier Sgt. 1st Class Collin Bowen to his wife, Ursula, and daughter during a special memorial ceremony hosted by the Maryland National Guard.

• WHEN -- 11:00 AM, SUNDAY, MARCH 6
• WHERE -- Towson National Guard Armory, 307 Washington Ave., Baltimore

About SFC Collin Bowen

On January 2, 2008 SFC Collin Bowen was severely injured when his vehicle was struck by an IED while on a mission in Khowst Province, Afghanistan near the Pakastani border. Suffering burns to approximately 50-percent of his body and after undergoing several surgeries in Afghanistan, he was flown to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas for further treatment. Over the next two months he would endure countless surgeries, but was unable to recover and died March 14, 2008.

Bowen was at the end of a year's tour in Afghanistan when he volunteered to go on his final mission. The fatal explosion occurred on the last day of a 10-day mission when the convoy was on their way back to base. The explosion also killed three others in the vehicle, including an Afghan interpreter.

About Phil Taylor and The American Fallen Soldiers Project

The American Fallen Soldiers Project, formed to help bring comfort and healing to mourning families of fallen military servicemen, provides at no cost an original portrait of their loved one to the family that is personally presented by the artist, Phil Taylor, during a special memorial ceremony in their community. The combined effect of the portrait, personal presentation, and relationship established between the family and the artist helps give them a new hope and genuine sense of the loved one's presence.