Johnny Stevens was 8 years old when his Uncle Glen Hubbard Stevens was killed on June 6, 1944, so he doesn’t remember a lot about him.
He has no idea why the family referred to him by his first and middle names, and he has no idea whatever became of the military training rifle his uncle gave him when he was about 6.
“I’ve always wondered what happened to that rifle,” he said. “We moved so many times, I’m sure it got left behind somewhere.”
Johnny, now 73, also remembers his uncle as a big man, at least 6–foot tall, a much larger man than older brother Butler, who was Johnny’s dad.
But military records show Glenn Hubbard was 5-8, 138 pounds when he entered the military on Feb. 7, 1941. A family photo taken the last time Glen Hubbard was home on leave from the Army indicates he was actually smaller than his brother Butler.
Maybe that’s because the people we admire are always larger than life in our memories.
(That's Butler on the end in the photo, next to Glen Hubbard in uniform.)
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