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Please create an account and join the community, it is absolutely free! He previously served in the Army but was honorably discharged due to the death of his entire platoon. He was first married to Cristina Yang and later to Amelia Shepherd , but both marriages ended in divorce. Owen grew up in Seattle, living with his parents and sister Megan just 5 miles from Seattle Grace Hospital. As a child, he used to play soccer, playing left defender. He always used to imagine him and Megan living close to one another, near their parents, raising their kids together, and going on family camping trips and cookouts with their families.
One summer, Owen and Megan went on a family road trip in California but Megan left the map in a rest-stop bathroom. Their father was furious and he refused to pull over and ask for directions. After hours of arguing with Evelyn and the kids complaining, their father just pulled over at a beach and they played there for hours until the sun went down.
It was one of the best experiences of his childhood. When he was almost 10 years old, he won a science award at school and ran home with the certificate.
Before he could show his mother, she sat him down and told him that his father had died that day. On top of the grief of losing his father, Owen felt enormous guilt over having been so happy and proud while his mother had had such a bad day. He attended Harvard. He did his residency at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and then worked at Maryland Shock Trauma before commissioning in the army and becoming an army trauma surgeon.
