DAY TO DAY AMONG THE VIET CONG

A young doctor kept an intensely personal journal of her life on the front lines before she was killed in 1970. It's a bestseller in Vietnam.

By Richard C. Paddock
Times Staff Writer
Posted August 4 2006

"No, I am not a child. I am grown up and already strong in the face of hardships, but at this minute why do I want so much a mother's hand to care for me? … Please come to me and hold my hand when I am so lonely, love me and give me strength to travel all the hard sections of the road ahead."

— Final diary entry of Dr. Dang Thuy Tram

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