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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012, 9:15 p.m.

My sister turned 39 again yesterday, That's the 26th time. To remember this milestone she and her husband are sitting on a China Airlines jet at this very minute on their way to Thailand and Laos. I cannot get it through my head how big this world is when they slill have to sit on the plane for another eighteen hours of travel going east from the Netherlands to get there. At least, that is the direction they took I think and they will be gone for something like six weeks....that's quite a trips, something akin to earlier travels with her daughter and ones her daughter and husband have done together. Let's hope for no Sannamis along the way. Also Laos is on their agenda. I had just watched a documentary about the "Bombies" in Laos that turn up everywhere, a small ball of explosives that with easily take an arm or leg off, take a life and disfigure a person standing twenty feet away just as easily. These were dropped in mass amounts by the USAF bombers on their way back from hitting targets in North Vietnam during the Vietnam war. I gather too that the Laos route was often just another dumping ground which indiscriminate pilots used along the way without considering loss of life on the ground. War does that to people and it makes us wonder why? I suspect it is all part of the intense moment just as the recent photos of half a dozen soldiers urinating on dead Taliban in Afghanistan. It is not something that makes us or the USA look good in the eyes of others regardless of what they do to try and keep thier ancient value system that is not fitting in with the rest of the world. What will happen when China becomes a world military power around the globe? Will we all be expected to bow to everyone? The kstruggle for a better way of life goes on around the globe as more and more factions of the populations in the smaller countries in North Africa have begun their own personal journey towards change.....now...who is goiing to pay for all the broken glass and bombed buildings.....not me! Tell me did it ever cross your mind that the boys were only having a group pee for an insurance policy? Maybe not!