True enough about Pol Pot. Remember the domino theory? He was it. And of course Laos had terrible times too. But the line somehow held in other places, for which we can be thankful.

I caught the tale end of a show on diaries that young women had written during the Holocost..from Ukraine, Poland etc...I was stunned bhy how similar they were to the writings of young Cambodian teens I had worked with, and who survived when so many did not. If anyone is in touch with the hereafter, tell them we tried. mg