Robert H. Barrow in West Feliciana Parish on Nov. 10. Barrow served as the 27th commandant of the Marines, and he and his wife, Patricia, are both buried in the Grace Episcopal Church cemetery in ...

Weil is a reporter for the Washington Post, where this story first appeared. Robert H. Barrow, a former commandant of the Marine Corps who was decorated for heroism and recognized for reforms ...

General Robert H. Barrow was laid to rest with full military honors in the town where he grew up. It was a fitting ceremony for a former commandant of the U.S. Marines. He served in three wars ...

Robert H. Barrow. Barrow, the 27th commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps and a native of St. Francisville, died Oct. 30, 2008. Barrow was the last veteran of World War II to lead the Corps ...

This maxim — once spoken by Gen. Robert H. Barrow, onetime commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, in the late 1970s — holds true on today’s battlefield. No other place on Earth reinforces this ...