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I’m re-activating everything, man. Those who know me or have followed the blog even a little will know that I spent a handful of months in Cambodia on my mission last year.
Well, Mission Unaccomplished! I’m going back February 12th.
So I got through to hundreds of people, well, there are well-over 100,000 amputees in SE Asia alone. I ain’t even started yet. There’s trauma too, and lots of it; it’s palpable, and I’m going to shake that up a bit as well.
Many of the oldsters in Cambodia and, I beg to say, many of their relatives and many, too, of their descendants are what the Khmer Rouge themselves charmingly called ‘The Persons Left Over From Death’ … well I maintain that they are, in fact, ‘Persons Ignitable By Life’! And I aim to go in there, with a dry clear eye (this time) and kick a little ass. Because, if I learned anything on my last (extended) visit, it is that these people don’t need or want compassion, in a way compassion has been killing them for decades. (more…)