 Six days later, Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese Army, and Thuận, targeted for his faith as well as his family connections to Ngô Đình Diệm, was detained by the communist government of Vietnam in a re-education camp for 13 years, nine in solitary confinement.In prison, he smuggled out messages to his people on scraps of paper.The brief reflections, copied by hand and circulated within the Vietnamese community, have been printed in the book, "The Road of Hope".