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Ripley’s Raiders
Monument Dedication Ceremony
March 2, 2012
On March 2nd, 2007 in a hotel in Crystal
City, Virginia. Ripley’s Raiders mustered together as a group for the first
time since their tour in Vietnam forty years prior. On March 3rd,
in front of panel number 16E of the Vietnam Memorial bearing the names of
Lima Company members who gave their all during the battle, retired Colonel
John W Ripley and his raiders paid tribute to the fallen warriors of Lima
Company.
Colonel Ripley’s untimely death on October 28, 2008
brought twenty-eight members of Ripley’s Raiders to his funeral at the
Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. After the funeral ceremony the
Raiders decided create a project which would pay tribute to Colonel Ripley.
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