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Jim said he saw the escorting as an extension of his military service. “My dad was a military man, and there’s a stereotype of the military man, that he’s all about war,” his daughter, Dandy Barrett Witty, said. “But dad taught me from the time I could understand that his primary mission was to keep the peace. That’s what his feeling was the day he died.” Jim himself was very direct about why he chose to serve as an escort. “I’ve spent my life doing my best for the security of my country and the people who live in it,” he had told a Pensacola area newspaper. “Why should I stop now?”

Survivors include his wife, June G. Barrett, now living in Silver Springs, Maryland; his son, Bruce M. Barrett: daughter, Dandy Barrett Witty: step-daughter, Dr. Mary Holly Allison, Silver Spring, Maryland; brother, Reginald A. Barrett; Annapolis, Maryland; grandsons, Sean M. Witty and Jason M. Witty.