During the Vietnam War the United States government waged a massive, secret air war in neighboring Laos.
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..
When first published in 1972, this book was instrumental in exposing the bombing.
Voices from the Plain of Jars was the result of that effort.
Shocked by what he heard and saw, he urged them to record their experiences in essays, poems, and pictures.
Fred Branfman, an educational advisor living in Laos at the time, interviewed over 1,000 Laotian survivors.
Two million tons of bombs were dropped on one million people.
During the Vietnam War the United States government waged a massive, secret air war in neighboring Laos
