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Born September 30, 1931, on a farm outside Herndon, Virginia: Wesley Lee Fox. Oldest of ten kids. He quit school after the eighth grade because he planned to be a farmer. Then Korea started. He enlisted in August 1950, a few days before turning 19, planning to do four years and go back to the farm. He stayed 43 years. He was wounded in Korea in 1951 and went back for a second tour anyway. After that he was a drill instructor, a recruiter, and a Force Recon platoon sergeant. Sixteen years after he enlisted, the Corps commissioned him as an officer. On February 22, 1969, First Lieutenant Fox was commanding Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, during Operation Dewey Canyon in the northern A Shau Valley. His company ran into a large, well-hidden North Vietnamese force. An enemy blast wounded Fox and every member of his command group except his executive officer. Fox kept going anyway. He knocked out an enemy position himself, ordered the assault, and moved through the fire calling in air strikes. Then his XO was mortally wounded, and Fox was the only officer left. He reorganized the company and led it forward with grenades until the enemy broke. He was hit again in the final assault. He refused medical attention, set up the defense, and personally made sure his wounded got out. His Marines took the entire bunker complex. Nixon gave him the Medal of Honor in 1971. He didn't retire until 1993, when he hit the mandatory age of 62, which made him one of the very few Korean War veterans still in uniform during the Gulf War. Then he spent eight more years in uniform training cadets at Virginia Tech. From eighth-grade dropout to colonel. Happy birthday, Colonel.

Never forget Richard “Ricky” Middleton Blood Jr On the morning of September 11, 2001, Ricky was on the 105th floor of the South Tower, working as an insurance executive for Aon Corporation He was 38 years young He was a son, a husband, a father of two young children, a big brother, a Virginia Tech engineer, and a volunteer fire marshal for his company.When the North Tower was struck, he did not wait. He told people to get out Survivors later said his urgency saved their lives. He could have kept going down. Instead, he turned back toward the 78th-floor sky lobby to help others find a way out That is the last place he was seen His name is on Panel S-62 at the National September 11 Memorial. His body was never recovered. What remains is the testimony of the people who lived because he stayed Ricky Blood was not only a victim of that day. He was a man who used his last minutes for other people That is a kind of courage that does not fade with the years We remember Ricky We remember his family We remember that love, duty, and decency still showed up in a burning stairwell Rest in peace, Ricky ✝️ https://t.co/hxH1aY0adH https://t.co/p6RZCvURwB https://t.co/C4S6cYEdNd https://t.co/izOJZmbBCx https://t.co/RIpodhjRCW

Virginia Tech: Antoine Gaujot: Swam river under fire for canoe, Philippines 1899. Julien Gaujot: Crossed fire to secure surrender, Mexico 1911. Earle Gregory: Alone captured MG, howitzer +22 foes, WWI 1918. Herbert Thomas: Smothered grenade, Bougainville 1943. Jimmie Monteith: Led D-Day assaults, guided tanks, 1944. Robert Femoyer: Navigated wounded plane, refused morphine, 1944. Richard Shea: Counterattacks at Pork Chop Hill, Korea 1953. Gary Miller: Smothered grenade, Vietnam 1969. VMI: Clarence Sutton: Carried wounded officer under fire, China 1900. Charles Kilbourne: Fixed wire on pole under fire, Philippines 1899. Cary Langhorne: Carried wounded under fire, Vera Cruz 1914. Adolphus Staton: Led battalion at Vera Cruz 1914. William Upshur: Led vs Cacos, Haiti 1915. Richard Byrd: North Pole flight 1926. Edward Schowalter: Led assault despite wounds, Korea 1952.