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1st Lt Norman E. Twetten attended college.

He joined the National Guard in Stillwater, Minnesota on 10 February 1941.

After completing two years of study, his mother was diagnosed with cancer. Twetten left Hamline University to help care for her. Soon after her death, he entered the service. He married and together with his young wife, traveled from camp to camp completing military training. He was commissioned as an officer in 1943 and sent to the European front. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge and earned a Silver Star for his efforts.

Besides his father, sister, and wife, Twetten also left behind a baby daughter. Linda Partridge, Twetten’s only child, was born just three weeks before her father’s death. She never met him and for many years wondered whether or not her father had ever received word of her birth before being killed. She later learned through correspondence with another soldier that he had. Partridge joined her aunt at this fall’s commemorative football service in honor of her father. As she had never met her father, the commemorative service was especially significant for Partridge. “I knew that my father attended Hamline, but I’d never been there,” Partridge said. “I was really impressed. It’s such a beautiful campus right in the middle of the city.”

One of the pictures shows a girl, named Sophie, who was the first adopter of Lt Twetten's grave.