PLATTEVILLE, Wis. — Don Tucker and David Glen Bendorf were classmates in Iowa-Grant High School’s Class of 1964.
“He was a great guy,” said Tucker, of Cobb. “He was not the luckiest guy in the world.”
Tucker said Bendorf, who served with the 3rd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, was wounded once in Vietnam.
“Usually you’re sent home,” he said. “It wasn’t so bad, and he was put back on the line.”
Bendorf, of Livingston, was killed by small arms fire on May 20, 1967. He was 20.
On Friday, a steady stream of people came to the University of Wisconsin-Platteville campus to visit the Moving Wall, a half-size replica of the black granite Vietnam Veterans Memorial (the “Wall”) in Washington, D.C. It was Day 2 of the memorial’s five-day stay in Platteville.
Turn to tomorrow's TH for more stories from the Moving Wall, and see video at THonline.com.
