you remember the name danny bailey, a man i admired. he is right there in the center of the photograph, with his helmet on. that is danny. a bunch of other guys there, i can see one of them, two of them who did not survive 1967, both killed in the delta. nearly all of them were wounded during that time. we got ready to run operation. we were going upriver and we are beached probably 9:00 or 10:00 in the morning, and started moving inland from the river and each of the platoons in the company was broken up separately, and within the platoon you generally have two squads in the front, and the two of them trailing. and my platoon was going routinely across the rice paddy toward the tree line. and it was just normal terrain. and nothing seemed out of the ordinary but particularly threatening, and tell my platoon -- until my platoon was approaching getting close to the tree line you can see. when our right hand squad was probably no more than 50 meters from the tree line, we came under fire from at least three directions, from the front, from