Stories about War & Conflict in Vientiane
A Communist Leader Hat TrickMaryLou Driedger - marylou [4,443] An athlete who scores three goals in a game is said to have achieved a hat trick. In Laos I visited my third Communist Leader memorial. My hat trick accomplishment was a rather surreal experience.
Destinations:
Vientiane |
Laos
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The Last of the FreeKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] During the Vietnam War, the Hmong of Laos had the dubious distinction of being at the very bottom of that conflict's pecking order. They constitute a particularly revealing example of an ethnic group...
Destinations:
Vientiane |
Laos
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Le Mal JauneKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] Although the term Indochina is an arbitrary one, employed by the French to encompass their possessions of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, there are several things that these very different and often...
Destinations:
Phnom Penh |
Hanoi |
Vientiane |
Cambodia |
Laos |
Indochina |
Vietnam |
Mekong River
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Sex, Lies and B-52sKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] * * * * * "There are no fighter pilots down in hell The place is full of queers, navigators, bombardiers, But there are no fighter pilots down in hell." --from The Ravens As long as the dull jingoist...
Destinations:
Vientiane |
Laos
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Portrait of an Anti-heroKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] Review of Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato , Broadway Books, 1999.
Destinations:
India |
Ho Chi Minh City |
Burma |
Vientiane |
Laos |
Vietnam |
Yangon |
New Delhi
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Getting Down in Laos, The Invented StateKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] The Lao National Museum (LNM), located in the capital Vientiane, contains only a few exhibits dedicated to Laos before French colonization. These exhibits are generally dusty, shoddily made and...
Destinations:
Vientiane |
Laos
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