... war. Many of them stuck close to the urban centers like Saigon, but some went on assignment into the fields with troops. One woman journalist, Denby Fawcett, followed directly behind a point man through the jungle as she watched him pick off a ... Vietcong soldier hiding on one side. "I wanted to see what it would be like to be so vulnerable,"" she said in a later interview. These women, like their male counterparts, were obviously willing to enter dangerous situations to get the ... real story of the war and bring it to the ... to family, friends, and even male veterans about their exp...

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