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Chris Fox's avatar

Honestly living here one would never know it ever happened. I've seen variety show reenactments and not a dry eye in the house among those old enough to remember; a mother hurriedly handing her baby over to someone on a yacht headed out to a rescue ship.

I've been to a village that Cambodians invaded in 1980 and slaughtered nearly everyone, a monument of human bone, a tiny monk pointed to the temple floor, "they beheaded my father right here."

But I have never seen a squint of resentment for being American.

Like I said, in 1998 there were still disfigured and maimed people, but they are all gone now. I saw one ticket seller with no hands, too young to have been in the war, and wondered if a land mine had gotten him.

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Peaceful Dave's avatar

I'm happy to read of their recovery. It actually seems amazing to me.

Mines. I have no words for how much I hate them.

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