Category Archives: cambodia

Kent State 1970

May 4, 2012 – 6:40 pm

John Filo’s iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio, a fourteen-year-old runaway, kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller after he was shot dead by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970. That was forty-two years ago. I was 17. The demonstrators at Kent State were protesting Cambodia invasion. The National Guard shot [...]

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APOCALYPSE NOW AND THEN by Peter Nolan Smith

March 22, 2012 – 3:00 pm

I tried to enlist in the Marines soon after my 16th birthday. My mother wouldn’t sign the papers. The 1968 Tet offensive had her doubting the final outcome of the Vietnam Conflict. Boys were coming back in coffins. I wanted a gun in my hands. Returning soldiers were portrayed as drug addicted monsters. Dennis Halley [...]

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Bomb Them To The Stone Age

March 22, 2012 – 2:43 pm

On March 18, 1969 President Richard Nixon ordered American B-52s to bomb Cambodia, thus kicking off a deadly air campaign supposedly directed against North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge targets. 540,000 tons of high-ordinance bombs resulted in the deaths of anywhere from 150,000 to 500,000 civilians and countless wounded in the agrarian populace. Operation Menu lasted [...]

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Da Chicken Farm de Sihanoukville.

June 20, 2011 – 8:31 pm

In 2007 I was losing my mind. The mother of my daughter has deserted me to live in the hicks or ‘bannok’. I had given up everything to move to Thailand and be a father. Angie’s mom was scared that I was planning to kidnap her. She was stupider than a bucket of mud. I [...]

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ROCK AND ROLL PART 2

April 23, 2011 – 7:22 pm

Gary Glitter served time in Vietnam. His crime was sex with minors. The singer of ROCK AND ROLL PART 2 claimed he was innocent, since the act of coprophilia isn’t ‘sex’. Authorities in almost every country in the world begged to differ. Cambodia has long been targeted by pedophiles as a desired destination to pursue [...]

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