Double Honors for Fallen Soldier ; Terry Drown Is Inducted Into His College's Athletic Hall of Fame and Also Is Granted His Diploma.

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Summary

Edna Drown knew in an instant that her son, Terry, had been killed in Vietnam.

"An Army car drove in the door yard," she recalled. "The minute that it started in the door yard, I knew. They didn't have to tell me."

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Double Honors for Fallen Soldier ; Terry Drown Is Inducted Into His College's Athletic Hall of Fame and Also Is Granted His Diploma.

She dropped to her knees. The rest is a blur.

It was June 16, 1969. Her eldest child, her only boy, was gone, his life taken by a land mine five days earlier. He was 24.

Forty years later, on Wednesday morning, two men traveled from the University of Maine at Fort Kent with news of another kind.

Through the drizzli...