Thought Patterns
by Emanuel
June 12, 2008 at 20:09
filed under photography
The toll of war: A woman in the village of Na Phat rings a U.S. bombshell used as a bell outside a small primary school. During the war in Vietnam, U.S. airstrikes turned neighboring Laos into the world’s most heavily bombed country per capita.
I found head-shaking photography on a piece about Laos on Foreign Policy‘s web site, well worth a look.
During the Vietnam War, tiny Laos became the most bombed country on Earth. Three decades later, its people are still living with the bombs left behind.
Bomb garden: Vegetables grow from a half empty U.S. bombshell at the home of a family in the village of Na Phat. In 1964, the United States launched what became a nine-year series of airstrikes in Laos. The operation was aimed at stopping the Viet Cong, but by the end, a total of 1.9 million tons of bombs were dropped on the country of less than 4 million people.
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