EDITORIAL: Saluting a Cheshire native, retired Marine Col. Harvey C. Barnum Jr.
EDITORIAL: Saluting a Cheshire native, retired Marine Col. Harvey C. Barnum Jr.
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Photo courtesy of Hayley Falk - Jeff Falk shown with Cheshire native Harvey Barnum, a recipient of the Medal of Honor.
April 13, 2021 04:38PM
The U.S. Navy has around 70 destroyers in service, among its hundreds of other warships, and it has always been a great honor to have one of them named after you.Â
Over the years, U.S. destroyers have been named for an illustrious list of Americans, from John Hancock to John Paul Jones to John S. McCain; from inventor Thomas Edison to inventor Richard Gatling; from the three Sullivan brothers, all in their 20s, who died when their ship was sunk at Guadalcanal during World War II, to any number of admirals; from one president (Lyndon Johnson) to one First Couple: Franklin