Vilabouly Boys
After spending some time in remote southern Laos, in an area strewn with hazardous UXO, I have returned to the capitol with a new view of Laos, its people , and the future, both theirs and mine.
When Aqua Survey President Ken Hayes asked me to join him on this trip working with new equipment to detect and map UXO deep in the ground, I was thinking of goals in terms of meters, hertz, and mili-volts.
But after having met survivors of exploding leftovers from a war long ago, and hearing about those who didn't survive, it was our concern for the future that provided new goals; to create the technology to find bombs before these kids do.
We have finished our work in the field for now, and will return home with a couple of reminders to work hard and try to help find a solution to the problem of UXO that I'm going to put in a frame; This photo of 2 friends outside the village of Vilabouly, and a receipt for a prosthetic leg from the COPE program that, unfortunately, some one is going to need.
When Aqua Survey President Ken Hayes asked me to join him on this trip working with new equipment to detect and map UXO deep in the ground, I was thinking of goals in terms of meters, hertz, and mili-volts.
But after having met survivors of exploding leftovers from a war long ago, and hearing about those who didn't survive, it was our concern for the future that provided new goals; to create the technology to find bombs before these kids do.
We have finished our work in the field for now, and will return home with a couple of reminders to work hard and try to help find a solution to the problem of UXO that I'm going to put in a frame; This photo of 2 friends outside the village of Vilabouly, and a receipt for a prosthetic leg from the COPE program that, unfortunately, some one is going to need.
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