Sunday,
Nov. 11, 2018, is Veterans Day. According to a Linfield grad/Delta Psi Delta
fraternity member, before the Saturday, Nov. 10 (1 pm PST kickoff) Pacific at
Linfield football game on Maxwell Field there will be a Veterans Day
observance.
Email the
grad and others Deltas received includes that “Mike Barrow will be mentioned
prior to the November 10thfootball game against Pacific. It is the 50th reunion
of his graduation class (1968). Because the game is just before Veterans Day,
we thought it would be timely both with the reunion and the sacrifice he made
with his life in Vietnam the next year. So come to Linfield's final game of the
season and remember our brother Mike for his sacrifice for his country during
the Vietnam War. Come early and view his memorial in the Linfield Library.”
Mike
Barrow, a Delta, was a Linfield quarterback. He died in Vietnam while serving with the U.
S. Army. Mike grew up in Prineville, Ore., and graduated from Crook County High
School there. He’s buried at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland. There’s
a study room in Linfield’s Nicholson Library named for Mike. In the room are
framed items memorializing him.
Mike graduated from Linfield in spring 1968. In October of that year he enlisted in the U.S. Army. Soon thereafter, he began basic training at the Army’s Fort Lewis, Wash.
Mike’s Army tour of duty began April 3, 1969, in Vietnam. A private first class in the 199th Light Infantry Brigade, he died during combat less than three months later. His death on June 23, 1969, in Long Khanh was a "hostile ground casualty" as a result of "multiple fragmentation wounds." He was 23 years-old and would have been 24 on July 3.
Learn more
about Mike:
Posted
Nov. 12, 2010:
Cheering
over, but Mike Barrow still remembered
http://wildcatville.blogspot.com/2011/10/cheering-over-but-mike-barrow-still.html
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Posted May
4, 2011:
Nov. 12,
2011, on campus: Linfield quarterback Mike Barrow to be honored
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Posted Oct
26, 2011:
1960s art
by QB Bruce Priem depicts Wildcat players, coach
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Posted
Nov. 14, 2011:
Mary Gail
Barrow speaks at Mike Barrow Study Room dedication, Nov. 12, 2011.
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Posted
Nov. 16, 2011:
Linfield
Review story about Nov. 12, 2011, Mike Barrow Study Room dedication
http://wildcatville.blogspot.com/2011/11/linfield-review-story-about-nov-12-2011.html
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Posted
Nov. 18, 2011:
Mike
Barrow: A Wildcat remembered
http://wildcatville.blogspot.com/2011/11/mike-barrow-wildcat-remembered.html
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Posted
Feb. 11, 2015:
Links to
four Mike Barrow stories
http://wildcatville.blogspot.com/2011/11/links-to-three-mike-barrow-stories.html
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Posted
July 5, 2015:
Football
time machine: Linfield beats PLU, 17-0, in 1965
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Posted
Sept 17, 2017
Death of
Linfielder Mike Barrow in Vietnam War shocked his former classmates
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