There are countless more like her, thousands of new mine victims each year show the other tragic side of the story. I mentioned on the floor here the other day about the bosnia conflict. Talking to a young teenager, young teenaged girl in the hospital. She had been sent away by her parents to a safe place during that war. The war ended, the army left the field. She could come home, she is running down the road, calling out to her parents and steps on a land mine and loses both her legs. She wasnt a combatant. The war wasnt even going on anymore. It was supposed to be safe. She became a victim. So many of these victims. Now, americans by and large also condemn the use of these land mines, but they expect more than they are getting from their government, and so do i. So should every member of congress. Its been 20 years since president bill clinton at the United Nations called for the elimination of antipersonal land mines. They cheered him when he did. Two years later in 1996, he said q
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