Bowie: A Biography - JFK247

9.
M
ARY ANGELA BARNETT was born on the northern coast
of the island of Cyprus in 1949 to her mother,
Helena, and her U.S. Army colonel father, George
Barnett. Her father had relocated to Cyprus after the
war.
“My father escaped the Depression by leaving
America and becoming a mill operator in Saudi
Arabia,” she tells me. “Then to the Philippines.
Unfortunately the second year that he was there, the
Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. He was in the
ROTC. He had no choice but to go up into the
mountains and fight in a guerilla war against them.
All these people who worked for my father went with
them. For three years in the American army no one
knew who was alive and who was dead but they kept
hearing that the guerilla resistance was harassing
the Japanese and generally causing havoc. They
couldn’t send supplies. They sent nothing. But for
three years they lived in the mountains of north
Lausanne. When he came back they asked him to
go to DC and become a general. He went on a
recruiting tour of America. He saw what was
happening in the South and he told them there is no
place in these times for an army. ‘The way this
country is now, I have fought with brown men for