More than 50 years after he hung beneath a bridge under enemy fire to stop a North Vietnamese armored invasion, the heroic actions of John Ripley are set to be recognized with the nation’s highest ...
Congress has recommended Col. John Ripley, a Radford native who destroyed the Dong Ha bridge during the Vietnam War, for the ...
A Naval Academy graduate’s Navy Cross will be upgraded to a Medal of Honor after a congressional resolution passed last week.
Hundreds gathered at the Hilton Garden Inn as as officials remember the 85 local heroes who never made it back.
Former special prosecutor Robert Mueller has died of complications associated with Parkinson's, MS NOW reported Saturday. He ...
He imposed the most significant overhaul of the F.B.I. in its history. Later, after concluding that Russia had interfered in ...