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| PFC. Ben McCullough, Jr. was killed in Vietnam March 7, 1968. He was a native of Bedford County, graduated from Wartrace High School, and had been employed by Uniroyal before entering the U.S. Army on September 7, 1967. He received basic training at Ft. Campbell, Ky., and took advanced infantry training at Ft. McClellan, Ala. His tour of duty in Vietnam began on Feb. 22, 1968 with casualty on March 7 in Kien Tuong, South Vietnam. His parents, Ben Sr. and Mildred McCullough received word that their son was missing in action on March 7, just two weeks after he'd arrived in Vietnam. On March 30, 1968 word was received he had been killed in action. He received the Purple Heart for his actions in Vietnam. The Times-Gazette is remembering Bedford County's Vietnam War victims in advance of the fall visit to Shelbyville of the Moving Wall. (Submitted photo) |
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Shelbyville, Tennessee ~ Tuesday, December 2, 2008
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I will never forget the day I heard about "Ben" being missing, then the awful news that he had been killed. I felt like someone had knock my breath out of me. I cried, not just for myself. But for his parents and sisters. We was in the same grade at school. Back then it was Wartrace High School. I kept thinking that they made a mistaked, that he wasn't dead. His car is still setting there in the garage, like it waiting on him to come home, he sure was crazy about that 1958 Chevy.
My heart goes out to his mother and sisters, his father has gone on to be with Ben. And to all of the others soldiers that fault for out Country and still fighting for it.
"God Blessed America!"
Diane Gregory Pope
Ben was a cousin of mine. I remeber the day that our family was told that he was missing and the day that he died. His parents were wonderful. His father drove a school bus for Cascade for awhile and I would sit and talk to him about our family.
Linda Burnett Wilson
Bell Buckle, Tn