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Navy Honors Cheshire’s Barnum, Medal of Honor Recipient
Navy Honors Cheshire’s Barnum, Medal of Honor Recipient
File photos by Nick Sambides Jr., Record-Journal staff
An 80-year-old Cheshire native was honored this week for his Medal of Honor service during the Vietnam War with the laying of the keel of a U.S. Navy destroyer named in his honor.
Retired U.S. Marine Col. Harvey C. Barnum Jr. and his wife Martha Hill were in Maine on Tuesday to strike welding arcs into a steel plate that will be incorporated into the hull of the future USS Harvey C. Barnum, Jr., a guided missile destroyer being built at Bath Iron Works, company officials said Wednesday.
EDITORIAL: Saluting a Cheshire native, retired Marine Col. Harvey C. Barnum Jr.
EDITORIAL: Saluting a Cheshire native, retired Marine Col. Harvey C. Barnum Jr. Advertisement
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