Cambodia Land Mine Museum

I feel like I should just create a solitary posting regarding this  place. I am not intending to make any political statement about America's part in the use of so many bombs dropped here or anywhere else. I will say that visiting here did make me realize how much history I do not know or remember. And I will add that as we entered this little museum, another visitor was leaving and said out loud' "Thanks America". I'm not sure if this was said to us or just in general. 

The gentleman who was our guide was an American, former military. We also met his wife, a former teacher in Florida. Interesting folks. Well spoken. 

Anyway, the website is interesting and it does seem if the efforts being made here to reclaim ordinance, help those who have been injured by the hidden bombs and to educate rural children is genuine. The scary thought is the estimation of how much ordinance is still out in the rural areas today yet to be uncovered, or worse.

www.camboialandminemuseum.org

And here are a few pictures. This is not a fancy museum. This picture makes it look really good. 

It is just a little place on the roadside, but people have worked to keep enough memorabilia and materials available to educate visitors. The student living area, where visitors are not allowed, is just behind the museum. There is student art work that depicts what has happened and what children want to have in the future. There is a fund set up now by a group of firefighters from the U.S. to support any student graduating from this orphanage/school to go on to college. Those that have made it on to the college level appear to be mostly girls. Most of these kids are missing one or more limbs or parts of limbs.