Abstract
hen I left the island of Saipan after two years of Peace Corps service in the late 1960s, I promised myself that I would return as often as pos sible. That's not the same as living there, certainly not the same as having been born there. But it's a promise that I have kept and still keep. I was back in the early ipyos to work for the Congress of Micronesia's Future Political Status Commission, in the mid-ipyos to work for the Microne sian Constitutional Convention. Magazine assignments brought me back, as did the research for my 1991 book The Edge of Paradise: America in Micronesia. Most recently, I was invited back to give a speech in connec tion with the sixtieth anniversary of the World War II battle for Saipan. What follows is an edited version of Saipan: From Then to Now, deliv ered to an audience of veterans and Saipan residents on 16 June 2004.
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