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Inside the once majestic country of cambodia, after a decade of war, history witnessed the collapse of the regime. It would end with one of the worst genocides the world had ever seen. This memorial helps to ensure that the world never forgets those who died during the years of the cambodia killing fields. Yet, there is more to the story. There is the untold episode of the fate of tens of thousands of survivors who sought refuge inside thailand. This is my father in a refugee camp in 1980. I knew that my father was a survivor of the killing fields but i was shocked to learn that he and many thousands of others faced a more terrifying atrocity. The massacre on the mountain here. My son never gave up. He always pushed me to tell him the story and i always said to him, i dont want to. I dont want to relive it again. He would say just tell me one time. That is how we get here to do a documentary. James taing, that is the opening of your documentary, Ghost Mountain. Tell me about this proje
American veterans memorial. We broke ground this morning and we will turn to the business of building the memorial next week. And so were glad that youre here. Were excited to be talking about the memorial and lets get right to it. With me is harvey pratt. Harvey is a citizen of the tribes of oklahoma. Shes a cheyenne peace chief. Hes been a career Law Enforcement official. Hes a working artist and he is a marine and a vietnam veteran. So please greet harvey pratt. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you. Harvey, what caused you to submit a proposal, a proposed design for the memorial . Well, our veterans director just kept after me. I had no really had no hope that i would even come close or submit a design. He kept after me. He said, do it for the tribe, harvey. Submit something. And i thought about it and i said let me dream on it. I have to dream. I do some of my best creativity is done early in the morning, in that dream period. Thats what i did. I went home and i dreamed about it and i
Of my friends have heard me give this origin story. This book came about because of the review i did that mention the series that was used biography to teach history. It would hit biographical topics or would you say representative biography to get at a broader subject of history. They had just published their first volume, it was on pocahontas because of the issues regarding native American History. They were looking for someone to do something on American Foreign relations. He offered me the opportunity to put together a perspective. These were supposed to be short and concise books. That was the idea. The topic i debated and consulted with some people about which biographical figure might serve that purpose in the american context. I kept coming back to Henry Kissinger. A man whos had such a long career of american and foreign relations. Though not born in the United States, his career really does represent something about 20thcentury american politics. When i did get the chance to
Children whove been the scaping, the conflict this area army says its entered my district thats been under a median control for nearly 30 years. Its one of 3 areas that are many a has to hand back as part of a ceasefire deal. Both countries signed the agreement to end 6 weeks of fighting over no know how to buck. Russia helped broker the truce and has peacekeeping forces on hand to oversee the transfer medians. Angry about giving up the land and theyve been protesting to demand that their Prime Minister resigns, the summer binge of it is near down for us. Just talk us through whats happening there. 1st of all were about 10 kilometers away from the border between us by john and armenian on the way. Weve been meeting people whove been displaced for about 27 years now. And theres a lot of excitement people, it is very cold, but people are waving their flags outside their cars. Theyre walking in the street with the flags waiting to go back into town. This is a region which area is approxim