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<em>Charles E. N. Howard Jr.,</em> Budge, to his many friends and relatives in the Washington area and elsewhere, died on 4 May 1977 at Walter Reed Hospital, after long illness. His life had been marked by the tragedy of war but shone with the knowledge that he never had an enemy of his own making.</div>
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Budge was born at Fort Mott, New Jersey, on 8 September 1907, the first son of Lieutenant C.E.N. Howard, United States Army, and Charlotte Agnes Small of Charleston, South Carolina. Sometime thereafter the Howards moved to Washington where he grew up and spent most of his life, before, during, and after his long Army career. A product of Western High and Columbia Preparatory School, he won an appointment to West Point, graduating in 1931. His biographer in the 1931 <em>HOWITZER</em> said of him, "...Budge steals hearts, masculine and feminine, with his soft voice, his unaffected, modest manner, and his bashful smile. An appealing wistfulness marks him as a dreamer, but we know of things he has done; things that most men dream of doing...” The writer knew him well. How could he have foreseen that Budge would someday be called on to do things no man could have dreamed of doing at that time?</div>
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Upon graduating he was assigned to the 83d Field Artillery at Fort Benning, Georgia, and after duty with the Civilian Conservation Corps in South Carolina and Louisiana, was called to Headquarters, IV Corps Area, in San Antonio, Texas, as aide to the commanding general. He arrived there in 1934 with his wife, Betty, the former Elizabeth Welty, daughter of Colonel Maurice D. Welty of The Infantry School at Fort Benning. Shortly after the birth of their first daughter, Sally, they moved to Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Budge graduated high in his class in the Field Artillery School and chose Fort Bragg, North Carolina, for his station, where a second daughter, Charlotte, arrived in 1940.</div>
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World War II found Budge stationed at Stotsenberg in the Philippine Islands, Betty and the children already having been shipped home with all military dependents prior to the outbreak of war. He commanded the 2d Battalion, 88th Field Artillery (Philippine Scouts) on Bataan, which, after a valiant fight and untold hardships, was forced to surrender with the remainder of American and Philippine troops under seige in that last stronghold outside the fortress of Corregidor. Taken prisoner, he survived the Death March, Camp O’Donnel, Cabanatuan, and the treacherous sea voyage to Japan where he served out the war as a Japanese Prisoner-of-War Camp Commander. When liberated at war’s end he was in poor physical condition, but, though never fully recovered, continued his long and distinguished military career.</div>
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Back in Washington Budge made a quick comeback, and in February 1946 was ordered to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as a student in the Command and General Staff School. In July of 1946 he was again ordered to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he served as Executive Officer and Training Officer, Communications Division, Field Artillery School. This pleasant tour was followed by a year as a student in the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island.</div>
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From July 1949 to May 1953 Colonel Howard served at the Pentagon, receiving his promotion to full colonel 7 September 1950. During this tour he served as Chief of the Collection Section, Intelligence Division, Department of the Army, and, later, as Chief of the Training Division which looked after all the Military Intelligence Reserve. From there he moved to Deputy Chief of the Plans and Policy Office, Chief of Information, Pentagon, and in addition had staff supervision over the Army Information School at Fort Slocum, New York.</div>
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In June of 1953 he was ordered to duty with the V Corps, Seventh Army, in Frankfurt, Germany, where he served as Intelligence Officer (G2) and later as Executive Officer, Division Artillery, 1st Infantry Division in Wurtzburg, Germany. This was followed by six months in the G2 Section of Communication Zone Headquarters, United States Army Europe in France before returning to Washington at the end of 1955.</div>
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After a year as Assistant Chief, United States Army Audit Agency in Washington, he was ordered to Fort Meade, Maryland, as Deputy G2, Second Army. From there in September of 1958 he went to Korea where he spent seven months back in action on the main line of resistance as Senior Advisor to the 5th Korean Corps. In November 1959 he returned to Washington where be served as president of the Army Physical Evaluation Board at Walter Reed Medical Center until his retirement in April 1961.</div>
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After retirement Budge and Betty continued to live in, Arlington, Virginia. Many friends and classmates have, at one time or another, had the pleasure of visiting their summer cottage at Cobb Island, Maryland, where their only cares were tending their crab traps and beautiful roses and mowing the grass.</div>
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Colonel Howard held many decorations, including the Silver Star, Legion of Merit, and Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster. He was a graduate of the Military Academy, Class of 1931, the Field Artillery School, the Command and General Staff School, and the Naval War College. He was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, New York Chapter. He is survived by his wife Betty of their home in Arlington; two daughters. Mrs. Chadwick C. Thompson of Fort Hood, Texas, and Mrs. Henry W. Austin of Virginia Beach; six grandchildren; and a brother, Rear Admiral James H. Howard, United States Navy (Retired), of Alexandria, Virginia.</div>
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<em>—Johnson Hayood Jr.</em></div>
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