Now 83, he watched Saturday as his wife smashed a bottle of sparkling wine against the bow to christen the future U.S. Navy destroyer that'll bear the name Harvey C. Barnum Jr.
Marine 1st Lt. Harvey"Barney" Barnum jumped to the ground when he came under fire during an ambush in Vietnam that killed his radio operator and commander.
He said he was speechless when he learned that a warship would bear his name."As anybody that knows Barney Barnum knows, I've never been speechless," he joked before the event. Gen. 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."
To launch a counterattack, he brandished a .45-caliber handgun and told the others to follow him. They did.
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