As a journalist, Paxton Andrews would experience**Vietnam firsthand. We follow her from high school in Savannah to**college in Berkeley and then to work in Saigon.
For the soldiers she**knew and met there, Viet Nam would change their**lives in ways they could never have imagined. For the men**in her life, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways hey could not**escape or deny. Peter**Wilson, fresh from law school, was a new recruit**who would confont his fate in Da Nang. Ralph**Johnson, a seasoned AP correspondent, had been in**Saigon since the beginning. He knew Vietnam and the**war inside out. Bill Quinn, captain of the Cu Chi**tunnel rats, was on his fourth tour of duty and it**seemed nothing could touch him. 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.
For 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.**But for her and the men who fought in Viet Nam,**life would never be the same again.
