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Loading... Voices from the Plain of Jars (1972)by Fred Branfman
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  BBcummings | Dec 24, 2014 |   Voices from the Plain of Jars is probably the most significant commentary about what happened, because it is straight from the mouths of the Laotian people who had gone through that horrible experience. This book was one of the key documents exposing the unauthorized military conflict, and led to Congress eventually becoming aware of the secret war that had been going on for years. This is the book that opened my own eyes, as it highlights the innocence and bewilderment of simple people caught up in a Cold War conflict that they could not possibly comprehend. Voices from the Plain of Jars shows exactly what it means to wage modern warfare, where the battlefields are no longer open fields, but the homes of blameless civilians who get caught in the middle. (  ) N_Lombardi_Jr | Aug 15, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
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During the Vietnam War the United States government waged a massive, secret air war in neighboring Laos. Two million tons of bombs were dropped on one million people. Fred Branfman, an educational advisor living in Laos at the time, interviewed over 1,000 Laotian survivors. Shocked by what he heard and saw, he urged them to record their experiences in essays, poems, and pictures. Voices from the Plain of Jars was the result of that effort. When first published in 1972, this book was instrumental in exposing the bombing. In this expanded edition, Branfman follows the story forward in time, describing the hardships that Laotians faced after the war when they returned to find their farm fields littered with cluster munitions--explosives that continue to maim and kill today. No library descriptions found. |
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On the Plain of Jars, the saturation bombing that took place was a deliberate scorched earth policy to depopulate an area of innocent peasants, a cold-hearted, calculated targeting of civilians, the majority of whom were women and children.
Voices from the Plain of Jars is probably the most significant commentary about what happened, because it is straight from the mouths of the Laotian people who had gone through that horrible experience. This book was one of the key documents exposing the unauthorized military conflict, and led to Congress eventually becoming aware of the secret war that had been going on for years.
This is the book that opened my own eyes, as it highlights the innocence and bewilderment of simple people caught up in a Cold War conflict that they could not possibly comprehend.
Voices from the Plain of Jars shows exactly what it means to wage modern warfare, where the battlefields are no longer open fields, but the homes of blameless civilians who get caught in the middle. (