Spec4 Andrew Daniel (click for photo of Daniel) was
shot and lay fatally wounded
on this porch, turning the house into the focal point of a fierce firefight during Tet
1968. Daniel's body was retrieved after dark. In this photo, taken the next
morning, you can see his canteen on the porch near the wall, marking the spot where he died. The photo was taken the next
morning by Jerry Berry, an Army combat photographer.
In 1989 I located the hamlet where my platoon fought an all day firefight
during Tet 1968. A retired teacher lived in the house that had been the focal point of the fighting. He remembered that
afternoon, twenty years earlier, when three G.I.s suddenly appeared
on his porch. One of the G.I.s was Spec4
Andrew Daniel.