Daily News | In Bucks County, people gather to honor a son who died in Vietnam, naming a bridge in his honor
David Ortals has been gone a long time, a Marine corporal who died in Vietnam in 1970.On Saturday they gathered to remember his life and honor his service, to imagine what he might have been and done if he’d come home from Southeast Asia, and to permanently etch his name into the local landscape.
The bridge on Frosty Hollow Road crosses Mill Creek in Middletown Township, Levittown. In those rippling creek waters the Ortals siblings splashed and played as children. On Saturday the crowd of friends, supporters, former Marines and soldiers loudly cheered her, shouting out, “Happy birthday!” In Peoria, Ariz., near Phoenix, Marine veterans arrived at her home to present her with an American flag.
As a teenager Ortals attended Bishop Egan High School, then transferred and graduated from Neshaminy High School, having played varsity basketball at both places. He was 19 when he enlisted in 1967, arriving in Southeast Asia in 1969 and serving as a mechanic with the 1st Marine Air Wing.
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