This is a true story. In an age when most books, movies and plays are bending, or breaking, the truth to achieve the author’s selfish ends, it is unusual to have available a book completely dedicated to telling a true story truthfully. The story is told by publishing the letters that Virginia Hanly wrote to the author. The letters are exactly as she wrote them, and no fictionalization or dramatization has been attempted. Goodman has added a few notes where they are necessary to give the proper background for the letters.
Before the Vietnam War, the letters were the friendly letters of a student progressing from a young freshman who knows only high school mathematics to a first class mathematician able to create new and publishable mathematics. But when the United States became more involved in the war, Virginia Hanly devoted all her energy to trying to stop the senseless killing. To learn how Virginia Hanly was a victim of the Vietnam War one must read the book. There, one will find many interesting items about this remarkable young lady.
