2 West Virginia communities are bound together by grief

In one grieving West Virginia city, people adorned mailboxes and street signs with red ribbons Friday. In a shaken town across the state, they pinned on blue ribbons.

These communities, Martinsburg and Webster Springs, are separated by mountains and 200 miles of twisting roads. But on Friday they were bound together in red-and-blue grief as the respective hometowns of Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe and Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, the two National Guard members who were attacked this week in Washington, D.C.

It was a somber holiday week for the two communities. At coffee shops, a hot-dog stand and veterans halls, people were planning prayer vigils and trying to make sense of the attack, which took place on the eve of Thanksgiving, killing Beckstrom and wounding Wolfe. Wolfe was in critical condition F