Posted on 03/26/2023 8:49:25 AM PDT by DFG
Ripley at the bridge. Read “American Knight” for the word on this extraordinary man.
Sorry, different man, John Walter Ripley, USMC.
Appears to be:
Adam Kinzinger, front row at the right (”Pilots”) t-shirt.
James Vasquez (looks like) with outstretched arms - left arm resting on Adam Kinzinger’s left shoulder.
Lt Col H. Ripley (“Rip”) Rawlings IV (ret.) at the rear, topmost in the photo.
Dr. Erin Felger (looks like) in the front row at the left.
Good eye..I’m less familiar with the others in the photo and iirc it was taken at Kinzinger’s home in Virginia.
Looking at the bookshelf on the right, the book series on the top shelf, left, are Winston Churchill’s *Second World War.*
The book to the right of that series, might be a biography of movie director John Ford, who was in the US Navy during WW-II and filmed the Japanese attack against the Island of Midway in 1942.
From the binder [heel] images of some books, they may be about military adventures and the movement westward across America.
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