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Army units from the 22nd Infantry, stationed at FSB Burt, had no reason to believe that it would be respected, particularly as elements of the 22nd had gotten hit over Christmas that year during another truce period. In late December 1967, all sides had agreed on a 36-hour ceasefire to take effect over the New Year period. Battle veterans or MIA investigation teams likely installed the altar. Yet the FSB Burt site is surrounded for kilometers on all sides by jungle.

The altars are there to recognize those confused ghosts and calm them down from their perpetual confusion about their existence. Vietnamese are afraid of wandering spirits, and battlefields are full of wandering spirits. They’re usually erected by people living nearby.

Homemade altars can be a clue that you’ve stumbled onto a Vietnam War site, especially when that altar is in the middle of the forest. Upon noticing a small homemade altar with a stuffed joss stick bowl on the side of the road near where I’d stopped, however, I knew. Yet I knew from maps that FSB Burt was bisected by a dirt road in 1967-68, much like the dirt road I was on. The site is unmarked, unheralded, and doesn’t get many visitors, so I couldn’t be sure if I was in the right place. My coordinates had me turn south from Provincial Road 794 onto a dirt road, and ride south for about five kilometers. Today, this part of Vietnam is desolate, and the forests here are thick. Part of a wall of US Army installations that traced the frontier from Phước Vĩnh in Bình Phước province southwest to the Fishhook region and the Parrot’s Beak region northwest of Saigon, Burt’s role was to help bolster the capital city and its periphery from PAVN and NLF incursions into Vietnam from Cambodia. Film director Oliver Stone was one of the base’s defenders, as was Vietnam War novelist Larry Heinemann.

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This battle was the inspiration for the second half of the movie Platoon. FSB Burt was the site of the Battle of Suối Cụt on 1-2 January 1968.

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In an especially remote location in northern Tây Ninh province, less than 10 kilometers south of the Cambodia border in a patch of dense jungle is the site of the famed Fire Support Base Burt.