Message From Nam

Author: Danielle Steel

02 Apr 1991

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As a journalist, Paxton Andrews would experienceVietnam firsthand. We follow her from high school in Savannah tocollege in Berkeley and then to work in Saigon. For the soldiers sheknew and met there, Viet Nam would change theirlives in ways they could never have imagined. For the menin her life, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways hey could notescape or deny. PeterWilson, fresh from law school, was a new recruitwho would confont his fate in Da Nang. RalphJohnson, a seasoned AP correspondent, had been inSaigon since the beginning. He knew Vietnam and thewar inside out. Bill Quinn, captain of the Cu Chitunnel rats, was on his fourth tour of duty and itseemed nothing could touch him. Sergeant TonyCampobello had come to Vietnam from the streets ofNew York to vent a rage that had followed him all the way to Saigon. For seven yearsPaxton Andrews would write an acclaimed newspapercolumn from the front before finally returning to theStates and then attending the Paris peace talks.But for her and the men who fought in Viet Nam,life would never be the same again.