Two days after New Year’s 1967, Dennis Kubic of Mt. Pleasant Township was wounded, and a friend and fellow infantryman was killed by enemy gunfire in Vietnam.
That fateful encounter came back vividly to Kubic on Thursday morning as he located the name of his wartime buddy — Frederico Perez of San Diego, Texas — on a panel of the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall.
“We got caught in an ambush,” said Kubic, 79. “The night before, I was in a foxhole with him. And then the next day he got killed and I got wounded at the same time. He was right in front of me…