![]() The school’s abbot, Mark Cooper, delivered the invocation Saturday. ![]() The other Marines were looking to him, an artillery spotter, after their commander died, he said.īarnum, of Reston, Va., was born in Cheshire, Conn., and studied at Saint Anslem College, a Benedictine college in Goffstown, N.H. The ship’s namesake said he was scared like everybody else but he tried not to show it. His unit was outnumbered, caught off guard and separated from the larger battalion outside the village of Ky Phu in Quang Tin province. In an interview, Barnum said the combat was harrowing on that day, Dec. Eric Smith, the acting Marine Corps commandant whose nomination to lead the Marine Corps is being blocked by a Republican senator, called Barnum “an icon, a legend, a Marine.” The ceremony Saturday at Navy shipbuilder Bath Iron Works was a tribute to the Vietnam War hero who during his first firefight was foisted into leadership of Marines who didn’t yet know his name because he had just joined them a couple of days earlier.ĭignitaries included Maine’s governor and senators, as well as Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro, who praised Barnum’s humility and generosity, in addition to being a war hero who inspired fellow Marines.
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