STILL WATERS
The Life and Legacy of WWII Fighter Pilot
Howard L. King
For some, still waters run deep.
Some people don't need to tell you who they are. They show you — in how they show up, how closely they listen, and how steadily they carry the people they love. Howard L. King was one of those people — a man who kept a private room inside himself, reserved for what he'd lived through, and let the rest of his life speak for him. This is the story of the son who found the door, and the family who walked through it with him.
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Back to Faith:
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Many believers want a deeper relationship with God. They want to read Scripture consistently, grow stronger in their faith, and build the kind of spiritual discipline that carries them through life’s challenges.
But daily life often gets in the way.
Schedules get busy.
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THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY
A son's journey to know his father more fully
Robert King grew up knowing his father as steady, warm, and endlessly interested in other people's stories — far more than his own. Howard wasn't a man who kept secrets. He was simply a quiet, reserved presence who never felt the need to draw attention to himself.
It wasn't until after his mother passed that Rob found a small diary tucked among her belongings. Inside the cover was a photograph of a young man in a military dress jacket. His father — a man Rob had known his whole life, and yet had never fully known.
That discovery became the beginning of a journey: gathering letters, records, and memories to understand the fuller shape of his father's story — a young man from the Okanogan who left home for the skies of war, and who carried what he experienced there with quiet, steady strength for the rest of his life.
Still Waters is where that journey led.
The daily discipline
that shaped a colonel’s faith.
- Scripture
Read and meditate on God’s Word. - Observation
Reflect on what the passage reveals about God and His truth. - Application
Consider how Scripture speaks to real life. - Prayer
Respond to God with humility and faith.
For years, Colonel (Retired), Chels Chae began each day the same way: opening the Bible, reflecting on Scripture, and recording what God was teaching him in a personal devotional journal.
Through decades of military leadership, personal trials, and life experience, that daily habit became a steady anchor in his life.
Those honest reflections, written over years of walking with God, became the foundation for: One Life Under God–Back to Faith: A Daily Roadmarch.
He uses the S.O.A.P. devotional method developed by his pastor and friend, Dr. Wayne Cordeiro.
Through this simple structure, readers can go through the Bible in a year and build a deeper daily walk with God.
This is more than a devotional.
It is a devotional forged through real life.
THE PRIVATE ROOM
Some things aren't hidden. They're held.
Howard wasn't a man with something to hide. He simply kept a private room inside himself — a place where he held what he'd lived through, so he could give his full attention to the people in front of him instead.
For most of his life, that room stayed closed. Not out of secrecy, but out of quiet, deliberate strength.
It took a diary, kept in his own hand in the middle of the war and tucked away for decades after, to finally open the door.
What Rob found there wasn't a confession. It was a gift — a way into a room he never knew existed, and a fuller understanding of the father he thought he already knew completely.
Still Waters invites readers into that same room: to sit with a young man far from home, to understand what shaped the father and uncle he became, and to feel — page by page — what it means when a family is finally given the chance to know someone more completely.
Faith tested.
Faith lived.
Faith shared.
Through years of leadership and service, Chels learned that faith must be more than something we talk about.
It must be lived daily.
In this devotional, he shares the lessons God taught him through Scripture, leadership, and personal experience—inviting readers to develop the same daily habit that sustained him.
WHY THIS BOOK EXISTS
A story preserved by family, for family.
As Rob gathered letters, records, and a wartime journal Howard kept in 1943, he began to see the fuller shape of his father's life — and knew it was a story worth preserving. He shared what he'd found with his cousin, Alan O. King, Howard's nephew, and together they set out to shape it into a memoir.
Along the way, members of their extended family contributed their own memories and stories, and reviewed the manuscript as it took form — each one adding another piece to the picture of who Howard was.
Still Waters is the family's answer to a question every family eventually asks:
What do we owe the people who came before us — and what happens if we never ask them?
THE HEART OF THE BOOK
- Family — A father, a son, and a nephew connected across generations by memory, loss, and love.
- The Past, Preserved — Letters, photographs, and a 1943 journal that might otherwise have been lost to time.
- Wisdom, Passed Down — What one man's private room, and the gift of finally opening its door, can teach the family that comes after him.
Still Waters is more than one man's wartime story. It is a meditation on what we inherit from the people who raised us — the parts they showed us, and the parts they quietly kept — and an invitation to open the door in our own families before it's too late.
THREE THINGS THIS BOOK WILL LEAVE YOU WITH
The Power of Family
A story that moves across generations — proof that the people who came before us are never as far away as they seem.
Preserving Memories
A firsthand account, built from real letters and a real wartime journal, given a permanent home before it could be lost to time.
Learning from the Past
A reminder that everyone we love keeps a private room of their own — and that asking to see inside it, while we still can, is a gift worth giving.
Features Howard King's actual journal entries and first-accounts from family members.
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STILL WATERS
The Life and Legacy of WWII Fighter Pilot Howard L. King
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Robert King
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Alan O. King
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About the Author
Chels Chae
Chels Chae has served in the United States Army nearly 30 years with a combat tour and culminating his career as the Chief of Staff for Joint Task Force – Homeland Defense and Deputy Chief of Staff for United States Army, Pacific (USARPAC).
He is a subject matter expert in operational planning, Design Methodology, disaster management, multinational operations, international negotiations and organizational design and capability development. Chels and his wife, Christine live in Honolulu, Hawaii and they have three sons – Michael, Joshua, and Daniel – they are very active in his community and church
As the President and CEO of Dynamic Planning & Response, LLC and Back To Nature, LLC, Chels led his companies to thrive in providing professional services in program and facility management, strategy development, operational planning, disaster preparedness and management, information technology support and services and organic agricultural products.
His company has developed a proprietary concept called, the Design Thinking Method and related workshops to help their clients to manage complex and persistent problems and strategic choices.
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