By Katie Wildes
Jim Berger, a Virginia Military Institute alumnus, died on Oct. 9. He was a prisoner of war for six years and eight months in Hanoi, Vietnam, alongside John McCain. Berger’s Lexington Building Supply & Mill, which the family has owned since 1984, is now up for sale. Scott Berger, son of Jim and Carole Berger and general manager of Lexington Building Supply, is working to increase sales, assuming the store will remain open. But if there is a strong enough offer, he says, the family is willing to sell.