"salem" is a story of a vietnamese soldier that works alone in the jungles of vietnam and assassinates american soldiers that stumble on his path. his job is to kill american soldiers and take the items they carry with them and hand the items over to the government so that they can identify the american soldiers. the vietnamese soldier recovers a pack of salem cigarettes from a dead american soldier he has just killed. in the pack of cigarettes is a photograph of the dead american soldier's wife.