Neither the paper or the government gave any clue about what happened to David. The listing below from the Virtual Wall is for one of my buddies who was KIA in 1968, during an ambush where I should have been killed along with him. I was on the truck, but the company commander made me get off because I was too short (short-timer, not much time left in-country) because he didn't want to risk my being killed since I was just going along as an A-gunner for Chuck Searles in the back of the truck. Both Marines were killed that day. I made a comment on the wall years later, saying that I knew David and left my contact information. About six months later, I got a call from his older brother. His name was Walter. He wanted to know how David had died because no one in the government had ever told the family what had happened. So, thirty years after the war, I had to be the messenger. The convoy was ambushed. David's truck was dead in the road from being hit. Chuck was do
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