Some were shot, some bludgeoned to death and some simply buried alive. Two young sisters tearfully watch ceremonies of their father, who served with the French military. Rows of rough plywood coffins with unidenfified bodies lie in a school. Grave diggers pulls wire used to tie red victim. Skeletal remains are unloaded from trucks in bundles.
Widow mourns before husband's numbered grave.
Coffins are readied for mass burial. All of South Vietnam suffered during the Tet offensive, but hardest hit was the city of Hue, the old imperial capital of Vietnam, located on the South China Sea. A mere recounting of statistics would add little to what has not already been said and written about Tet 1968. But now that two years have gone by and the nation wonders what this year of the Dog will bring, a brief account of what this tragedy meant to one family will place the memory of the Tet of7ensive into a more personal perspective. Mr. Tran Xuan Duc, an elderly widower retired in Hue, where he lived with his two teenage sons.