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Medal of Honor awarded to the late John Ripley of Radford
A Radford veteran was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor last Thursday.
Col. John W. Ripley received the nation’s highest honor in recognition of members of the armed forces who “distinguish themselves conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of their own lives above and beyond the call of duty,” according to a White House press release…