Coverage of Col. John Walter Ripley's furneral at Annapolis. Even the NY Times and [URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/03/AR2008110302948.html"]Washington Post gave him some press[/URL]. USNI has a page with multiple links to his eulogy and stories/book about his epic single-handed blowing of the bridge at Dong Ha under fire to stop advance of 200 North Vietnamese tanks during the surprise invasion of the South in spring 1972.
