High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Master Sergeant Ralph Lee Bowerman (US Army, retired), (born 14 August 1934, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada), is a composer, songwriter, musician and entertainer. A saxophone player since childhood, Ralph Bowerman is best known for winning the US Army Bicentennial Army hymn competition on 14 June 1975, and for the memorial service at Arlington National Cemetery, during which SFC Ralph Lee Bowerman`s composition "Mighty Is Our Army," the winning selection from over 1,200 entries in the Army Chaplains` Bicentennial Army Hymn Composers Competition, was presented. Ralph has also performed in a honky tonk band with country singer Loretta Lynn during the early 60`s.