Death of Linfielder Mike Barrow in Vietnam War shocked his former classmates

In the summer of 1969, Tim Marsh (Linfield Class of 1970) was attending Linfield summer session in McMinnville.

Linfield's Dillin Hall cafeteria needed lunchtime student workers in its steam room, where dishes were washed and dried. He and fellow students signed up.

One day someone came into the steam room and told them Mike Barrow (Class of 1968), with whom we attended Linfield, died in Vietnam. (He was killed June 23, 1969, in Long Khanh, Vietnam, serving as a U.S. Army infantry soldier.) "We were shocked. I'll never forget our sad reaction," Marsh said.

Mike's is one of more than 58,000 names of American service members on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial "Wall" in Washington, D.C. They lost their lives in the Vietnam War. From Prineville, Oregon, Mike is buried at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland. 

(Some remember Mike as a Linfield football and baseball athlete.)

Why mention this now? Tonight 9/17/2017. a 10-part ‘The Vietnam War’ documentary debuts on PBS television.

Read about Mike here at Wildcatville …
http://wildcatville.blogspot.com/2011/10/cheering-over-but-mike-barrow-still.html

… And, here …
http://wildcatville.blogspot.com/2011/11/links-to-three-mike-barrow-stories.html

Photos

http://army.togetherweserved.com/profile/39436

1 photo:

PFC Michael Edward Barrow (1945 - 1969) - Find A Grave Memorial

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=330957

1 photo posted here in 2016:

http://www.virtualwall.org/db/BarrowME01a.htm

More photos:

http://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/2675/MICHAEL-E-BARROW

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LINFIELD GRAD MIKE BARROW, FORMER WILDCAT FOOTBALL PLAYER, DIES JUNE 23, 1969, SERVING WITH U.S. ARMY IN VIETNAM

(From Prineville, Ore. His folks moved to Portland after he graduated from Crook County High School, Prineville.)

Capital Journal daily evening newspaper, Salem, 28 June 1969

Linfield Football All-American Howard Morris honored with Wildcat football helmet decal

The late Howard Morris, longtime Oregon Tech coach and athletic director, is honored by his alma mater, Linfield.

The #43 decal on Linfield Wildcat football helmets during the 2017 season salutes Morris, a Linfield football All-American and one of only three Linfield football players to have their jersey numbers retired. He wore #43 during his Linfield playing career, 1954-1957.

A 1958 Linfield and 1954 Crater High School of Central Point, Ore., grad, he died in Klamath Falls, Ore., in July 2017.

Oregon Tech’s 
main campus 
is in Kamath 
Falls. 

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=Retired Linfield football jersey numbers:

-Ad Rutschman #32

Class of 1954

-Howard Morris #43

Class of 1958

-Vic Fox #47

Class of 1958

=T.E.A.C. on the back of Linfield football helmets:

-Team

-Excellence

-Attitude

-Class