"They say you have to be crazy to do this work, but we're just a little crazy," says Hayes, a 52-year-old ex-Australian army munitions instructor. "The crazy part is the way people have to live with all this stuff in their ground."
If you want the a worst-case scenario for the aftermath of what America's military is doing to Iraq, visit Laos.
Between 1964 and 1973, the United States unleashed upon Laos the most fearsome bombing barrage in history, and the shell pieces and unexploded ordnance left behind utterly changed the way people live. And die.
Kevin Fagan SFChronicle March 30, 2003, linkpoint from JHAI foundation newsletter (good coffee!)
