Well this story starts in early 1967. We are all working 12 hour shifts and we have metal corrigated 6/12 pitched roofs over wood and screen sided huts about 8' apart. We also have open sand bag bunker in between for the mortar attacks that happened every so often. We could tell when we were going to have an attack because the vietnamese barber was always gone the day of the night attack. They had been telling all of us to put roofs on our bunkers for awhile. Between all of us work was progressing slowly at best and non existant for some bunkers. The attack came late one night and one of the mortars made a direct hit on a bunker of 25 250 lb. bombs. We had been in our bunkers for some time when the hit came and we all watched this, at the time, neat mushroom cloud going up into the atmosphere, it felt like several minutes but was probally seconds, when the concusion blew through our huts and angled them away from the bomb dump at a 45 degree angle. Seconds later we here this rat a tat on our hut roofs and a lot of guys saying words and flying out of our bunkers to get under the angled eaves and out of the falling schrapnel. Quite a few of us got burned by the falling hot schrapnel from our own bombs but only 13 put in for medals for being wounded in a war zone out of 400. Not all got wounded but a lot more than 13 but could not see trying to explain how you got wounded without it being an out and out lie. Needless to say those same bunkers got roofs on them within the week and some were 2 to 3 ft high with old aircraft stripping metal in between the sand bag layers. They could have taken a direct hit and not bothered them or the guys inside. We may be slow at times but we got it done. Thanks again Cpl. Dan Rawstern