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8 Feb 68
Dear Mom and Dad,
…I’ve never really regretted coming over here, even yesterday when my favorite Turd got hit. I really loved the kid. He never complained…I held his head for fifteen minutes while my corpsmen worked on him. I almost cracked…Well, you learn everyday the mistakes you are making. The biggest one is not to get too attached to any one person. Not over here at least…We see little if any hope of it every ending over here. The way we move without contact, an occasional sniper is all, you begin to wonder if the VC are even out there. And all the time you know they are. The great frustration is that they don’t come out and fight.
Love,
Don
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2Lt Donald J. Jacques, from Rochester, New York, arrived in Vietnam in October 1967. Assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 26th Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, he was a platoon commander at Khe Sanh. On 25 February 1968, he was killed in an ambush while out on patrol. He was 20 years old.
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