I had been in An Hoa since Sept., I was with 1st Dental Co. We had old French buildings for our clinic and quarters. The local Vietnamies wall builders had just finished a real nice sand bag wall behind our building that protected us and seperated us from two large gas bags and one large LZ. Christmas eve around 10 or 11 pm flares of all sizes started to light up the night, there were so many it was almost like day time. I was standing on top of the wall taping on my recorder the events as the happend. It was a site to see. My luck, no snipers were out, he would not have had a hard time seeing me. Next day, I was told the Gen. had a fit , some 5,000 lbs worth of flares went up in smoke, not to mention how easy a target we made of our selves. It was said that heads rolled. Also I could have gotten killed by the flare casing falling all around me… what a night.