Old Soldiers Never Die, They Just Leave Alot of Bad Shit

[Daniel Cape]

Vietnam's problems with UXO (UneXploded Ordnance) pale in comparison
with poor old Laos. More tonnage dropped on this wee agrarian
less-famous-Indochine Commie state than WWII combined 'pparently.
I stayed at a hostel by the Mekong that had a fence made of old
shells, clambered happily on a Soviet tank that met its end in a
farmer's bean patch, and sat ruminating in ancient megalithic jars
split open by strafing warplanes and hi-xplosive. Meanwhile hundreds
of Laoitians (sp?) a year get maimed in paddies and playgrounds by
rusted cluster(fucks)bombs.

2009/8/1 rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>:
> It will be another 300 years and cost more than $10 billion to clear
> the bombs, shells and mines left behind by the Vietnam War, Vietnamese
> officials say. Bombs and mines have killed or maimed more than 22,000
> people since the end of hostilities in 1975.
>
> Reuters
>