THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. The remembrance from Wanda is touching and reflects her admiration and respect for you. As long as you are remembered you will remain in our hearts forever….

Dear Sp4 Daniel Pena, Thank you for your service as a Heavy Construction Equipment Operator. I researched you on the 54th anniversary of the start of your tour. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. It is the Easter season. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

The 84th Engineer Battalion maintained their base camp at Camp Williams, west of the city of Qui Nhon in Binh Dinh Province, RVN. During the January 1968 Tet Offensive, Williams was attacked by a squad of Viet Cong sappers which succeeded in penetrating the camp perimeter. A few hours after midnight on February 3, 1968, the sappers gained entrance by destroying the #3 perimeter bunker with a B-40 rocket-propelled grenade. On guard duty in #3 was Heavy Construction Equipment operator SP4 Daniel Pena Jr. Pena died after suffering fragmentation wounds in the explosion. The sappers infiltrated the camp, tossing satchel charges and firing small arms. During the rampage, they attacked a tent where the cook slept with a satchel charge, critically injuring food service specialist SP5 David W. Pippin. While the engineers organized their defenses amidst the chaos, the sappers escaped. The wounded Pippin was medically evacuated to the U.S. Air Force Hospital at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines where he died of cardiac arrest and renal failure on February 14, 1968, from the injuries he received. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and “Engineers at War” by Adrian G. Traas; also information provided by John Bieda (March 2021)]

Danny was my boyfriend i loved him then and still carry him in my heart. Till we meet again in heaven .

Danny, I'm proud to have known you. You did your best ; you gave your all.