According to the United States Information Agency data attached to this image; taken at the height of the Second Indochina War (Vietnam War; American War) in December; 1967: 'Two battalions of Viet Cong systematically killed 252 civilians in a "vengeance" attack on the small hemlet of Dak Son. Tears are streaming down the face of little three-year-old Dieu Do; now homeless; and fatherless'.