Enoch wrote last night about his experience at the Land Mine Museum, and I have to echo his praises. It was one of the absolute most interesting (and sobering) places one could ever go to. There we a lot of pretty sad lessons you could learn as you wandered about. The one that stuck out the most to me? That the USA is one of the very few countries in the world that has not outlawed landmines. Yup, right up there with other great, progressive nations like Libya, Syria, Iran, and North Korea. (Seriously.) Very sad stuff, but again, a cool place to learn a lot.
The man who runs the museum is a former Khymer Rouge soldier who actually is responsible for laying many of the mines himself. However, with all the work he's done to remove them from Cambodia, he's actually gained quite an international reputation for being a good guy, earning him a 2010 CNN Heroes Top 10 nomination. Pretty cool stuff!
Can you see the landmines in the picture to the right? How about if you were running through a dimly-lit jungle with bullets whizzing past your head? Probably not. Scary stuff.
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