The Father of Bridge Day
The Fayette County Chamber of Commerce in West Virginia posthumously honored a Korean War veteran on July 16, 2022, for his maiden, 876-foot parachute leap more than four decades ago. The memorial, which immortalizes the story of Army veteran Burton Ervin’s groundbreaking jump off a then-new New River Gorge Bridge near Fayetteville, West Virginia, honors the founding father of what has since...