"...Remember, friends. . .
Remember. . .
the boys who died,
who lived,
who cried,
The boys
who fought
in Nam. "

This is Danielle Steel at her best,Danielle's earlier novels are much better written and have well-developed plots and characters. Message from Nam is proof of this.
It's November 1963 and Paxton Andrews is a senior in her Savannah high school. Her mother wants her to attend Sweet Briar College. But Paxton has other ideas about where she want to go to college. Choosing the University of California, Berkeley, she moves to California and starts a new life as a journalism student.

Over the next few years, Paxton experiences the turbulence of the late 60s -- the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, and the Vietnam conflict. After the death of her fiance, Peter, she starts working at his father's newspaper. At her request, she is sent to Vietnam to find out what is going on there.
This book isn't a romance or a silly easy beach read, Message from Nam is an eloquent and really well researched book