comments_image Comments  “A Lake of Blood and Destruction” – The
Voices We Never Hear From America's Wars   Photo Credit: Harper
& Row   Voices From The Plain Of Jars: Life Under An Air
War, “arguably the most important single book to emerge from the
Vietnam war” according to historian Alfred McCoy, has just
been reissued by University of Wisconsin press. The book is the
only one of 30,000 Vietnam-era books written by Indochinese
villagers, who comprised most of the population, suffered most,
and were heard from least. But though unique, these voices also
speak today for the countless unseen civilian victims of U.S.
war-making in the Muslim World and beyond, and graphically
describe the human consequences of U.S. Executive Secret war-
making executed by Henry Kissinger from 1969 until 1975, and the
dominant mode of U.S. warfare today.  Below please find excerpts
from writings by Lao villagers from the Plain of Jars in
northern Laos, who were bombed for 5 years from 1964 to 1969.
The bombing,  which eradicated