![]() ![]() ![]() I loved education and I loved learning, but I just couldn't make heads or tails of what I wanted to do with myself," he said. Owens didn't consider a career until college, though. "As a kid, I had grown up in camouflage and wore dog tags and had buzz cuts." My father was a chaplain with the state Guard," said the New Mexico native, now a Phoenix resident. "They called me over and said, 'Some soldier sent mail for you.' "īrian Owens was young when the military bug bit him. ![]() "There were a lot of people surrounding the library, and I was like, 'What's going on?' " he said. Then, shortly before Veterans Day last year ,the 17-year-old high-school senior was called into the library with the rest of his class. He waited so long that he forgot he was waiting. He waited through the rest of elementary school. So, Wood sent Alan's packet off to an Army unit stationed in Baghdad and asked Alan to wait.Īlan did wait, patiently, through the rest of the school year. Wood asked her students to send their Stanley cut-outs to relatives or friends, who would then take them on a journey and detail the characters' exploits in a letter back.Īlan didn't have a friend in mind - or at least not one who would take Stanley on an adventure worthy of a third-grader's imagination. The Huntsville, Ark., boy, along with other students in Wood's class, penned a note to accompany a paper cut-out modeled after the title character in the popular children's book "Flat Stanley." After being smashed by a bulletin board in his sleep, the book's protagonist makes the most of his new 2-D state by mailing himself to friends. "People don't write letters anymore," according to third-grade teacher Luella Wood.īut 10 years ago, in the painstaking scrawl of an 8-year-old, Alan Orduna did. ![]()
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