In reading this book, I gained knowledge about a painful piece of our nation's history that is barely mentioned in American History courses, and the emotions multiplied with every page that I read. Message from Nam starts with a poem entitled "The Boys Who Fought in Nam" and from those very first few pages and the powerful message contained in those lines, I was emotionally invested in this book. But for her and the men who fought in Viet Nam, life would never be the same again. Sergeant Tony Campobello had come to Vietnam from the streets of New York to vent a rage that had followed him all the way to Saigon.įor seven years Paxton Andrews would write an acclaimed newspaper column from the front before finally returning to the States and then attending the Paris peace talks. Bill Quinn, captain of the Cu Chi tunnel rats, was on his fourth tour of duty and it seemed nothing could touch him. Ralph Johnson, a seasoned AP correspondent, had been in Saigon since the beginning. Peter Wilson, fresh from law school, was a new recruit who would confont his fate in Da Nang. For the men in her life, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways hey could not escape or deny. We follow her from high school in Savannah to college in Berkeley and then to work in Saigon.įor the soldiers she knew and met there, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways they could never have imagined. As a journalist, Paxton Andrews would experience Vietnam firsthand.
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