View a eulogy for Joseph Rhett Barker, USMA '38, who passed away on November 1, 1943.
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Joseph Rhett Barker
West Point, 1938
Be Thou At Peace
Posted by James Litton on February 7, 2000:
| My father was briefly the cellmate of Capt. Barker at Fort Santiago, Manila, before Capt. Barker was executed by the Japanese in 1943. My father always spoke of the the bravery of Capt Barker and his certainty that America would win the war with Japan. |
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