There are still thousands of people dying every year in Laos, mostly children and farmers, from unexploded anti-personnel ordnance that the U.S. simply saturated much of the land with, especially in the Plain of Jars. There actually is a British engineering team trying to remove some of these things, which are much worse than land mines.

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people – along with despair about its future.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

Part of the population of Laos lives in urban centers, Vientiane being the largest.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

It doesn’t take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos.

In the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.