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<\/p>\nThe latest fad with digital photography is geotagging.\u00a0 With simple software and hardware you can\u00a0pinpoint exactly where and when you were on planet Earth,\u00a0as you threw up gang signs in front of some far off location to impress your friends on the social networking sites.<\/p>\n
It was quite distressing to see the markers loaded up in Google Earth.\u00a0 The red dots aren’t landscape photos, but tagged spots representing bombing mission data from just the U.S. Air Force.\u00a0 If more data were released from the other parties in the bombing campaign, I’m sure the screen would be bright red.<\/p>\n
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Millions upon millions of ordnance was dropped on Laos in the late ’60’s and early ’70’s.\u00a0 (One of the above photos is just from one province in Laos)\u00a0 A large portion never detonated and still contaminate the land, where people rely on subsistence farming to survive.\u00a0 At the current removal rate and funding, it would take thousands<\/strong> of years to clear them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The latest fad with digital photography is geotagging.\u00a0 With simple software and hardware you can\u00a0pinpoint exactly where and when you were on planet Earth,\u00a0as you threw up gang signs in front of some far off location to impress your friends on the social networking sites. It was quite distressing to see the markers loaded up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,59,7],"tags":[58,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-1035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-lao-culture","8":"category-laos-trip","9":"category-photos","10":"tag-laos","11":"tag-vientiane","13":"post-with-thumbnail","14":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/00032.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pelE0-gH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1054,"url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/the-plain-of-jars\/","url_meta":{"origin":1035,"position":0},"title":"The Plain of Jars: Xieng Khouang, Laos","author":"Boon.Vong","date":"August 22, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Looking back at the photos, I realized that the best images were the ones that didn't focus solely on the jars, they were the ones of us.\u00a0 Most had never been to the plain of jars, only read about it.\u00a0 To this day archaeologists have no clue as to who\u00a0made\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Lao Culture"","block_context":{"text":"Lao Culture","link":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/category\/lao-culture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/00024.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1046,"url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/reunion\/","url_meta":{"origin":1035,"position":1},"title":"Reunion","author":"Boon.Vong","date":"August 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"It was a long day, but it ended nicely, with dinner at the hotel.\u00a0 FB asked me to translate for him while he caught up with his best friend, Mr. BL, a man whom he met back in the late 60's, when\u00a0FB was an educational advisor for the U.S.\u00a0 He\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Lao Culture"","block_context":{"text":"Lao Culture","link":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/category\/lao-culture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/00028.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1026,"url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/traveling-through-laos-with-friends\/","url_meta":{"origin":1035,"position":2},"title":"Traveling through Laos with Friends","author":"Boon.Vong","date":"September 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are the people that I traveled through Laos with.\u00a0 All amazing and kind hearted people with some connection and empathy towards\u00a0Laos and\u00a0its people. 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