Voices from the Plain of Jars: Life under an Air War

Pt. 1. The Disappearance Of The Plain Of Jars. The Other War ; Crossroads And Battleground: Ca. 1250-1964 ; Automated Battlefield, 1964-1969 ; The Survivors, 1969-present ; ... And Beyond ... -- Pt. 2. Voices From The Plain Of Jars. What Sadness! / A Twenty-year-old Man, A Traditional Singer ; Have Pity On The Victims Of The War! / A Thirty-year-old Woman ; May The Life Of A Former Nurse From Xieng Khouang Pass Away Without Returning Again / A Twenty-six-year-old Nurse ; Why Did The Planes Drop Bombs On Us? / A Thirty-nine-year-old Farmer ; The Day Does Not Exist When We Will Forget / A Laotian Poet ; Three Jets Came Together Dropping Bombs / A Sixty-nine-year-old Former Monk ; He And His Wife Died Together In The Ricefields Because Of The Airplanes / A Twenty-two-year-old Woman ; And So We Sang With Brave Hearts / A Fourteen-year-old Boy ; The The F-105 Warplanes Strafed And Dropped Rockets And 150 Kg. Bombs On The Village And People Without Stopping / A Twenty-eight-year-old Man ; ... A Bomb Fell About Fifteen Meters From Where My Father Was Ploughing ... / A Sixteen-year-old Student ; Then They Bombed Our Village, Hitting Houses, The Pagoda, The School, Devastating Our Ricefields And Killing The Cows And Buffalo / A Seventeen-year-old Boy ; The Poisons Dropped By The Planes / A Twenty-eight-year-old Man, A Thirty-seven-year-old Man, A Forty-two-year-old Woman ; We Lived In Holes All The Time / A Fifty-one-year-old Farmer ; ... In The Forest I Would Go From One Hiding Place To Another / A Thirty-nine-year-old Rice Farmer ; They Died Like Animals Die In The Forest / A Twenty-seven-year-old Man ; This Is My House, Built Of Lumber Twenty-six Years Ago. It Was Struck By The Airplanes ... / A Forty-nine-year-old Farmer -- Appendix. Complete Text And Supporting Documents Of Usis Refugee Survey As Obtained By Congressman Mccloskey ; A Survey Of Civilian Casualties Among Refugees From The Plain Of Jars, Laos / Walter M. Haney. Compiled, With An Introd. And Pref. By Fred Branfman.