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Retired Marine and Medal of Honor recipient Col. Harvey C. Barnum speaks at a ceremony for Medal of Honor recipient U.S. Marine Cpl. Jason L. Dunham at the National Museum of the Marine Corps, Quantico, Va., Jan. 12, 2007. Dunham died in Iraq in 2004 while shielding fellow Marines from a grenade blast. Barnum received the medal in 1965 for heroism in Ky Phu in Kuang Tin Province, Republic of Vietnam.

Retired Marine and Medal of Honor recipient Col. Harvey C. Barnum speaks at a ceremony for Medal of Honor recipient U.S. Marine Cpl. Jason L. Dunham at the National Museum of the Marine Corps, Quantico, Va., Jan. 12, 2007. Dunham died in Iraq in 2004 while shielding fellow Marines from a grenade blast. Barnum received the medal in 1965 for heroism in Ky Phu in Kuang Tin Province, Republic of Vietnam.

Retired Marine and Medal of Honor recipient Col. Harvey C. Barnum speaks at a ceremony for Medal of Honor recipient U.S. Marine Cpl. Jason L. Dunham at the National Museum of the Marine Corps, Quantico, Va., Jan. 12, 2007. Dunham died in Iraq in 2004 while shielding fellow Marines from a grenade blast. Barnum received the medal in 1965 for heroism in Ky Phu in Kuang Tin Province, Republic of Vietnam.

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