Well here we are at the Calgary airport waiting for our flight to LAX which takes off at 7:35 am. From there it will be a 13 hr 50 minute flight to Shanghai, China. It was an interesting night at the hotel. Bob went to climb into bed only to discover that the entire bed was wet....yuck! Room change occurred and the new bed was wonderful. Hope all our beds on this trip will be as nice but that will be unlikely.
Cambodia Killing Fields
Disclaimer - the following pictures are very graphic. This was the toughest day, March 4th, during our whole trip...very emotionally draining. We live such a sheltered life in Canada...we really need to appreciate our lives and lifestyle. We will start the day with a visit to Tuol Sleng prison, or S-21, which was initially a school complex in the city of Phnom Penh. It became the main interrogation center of the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge (KR) were a radical communist militia in Cambodia in the 70's and on April 17, 1975 just 2 weeks before the fall of Saigon they marched into Phnom Penh and the terror started. Their goal was to turn the country into a pure, self sufficient rural peasant society. To do that they had to rid the country of its urban and educated members of society. This included anybody with more than a rudimentary education. By the time the Vietnamese invaded the country on January 7, 1979 the KR had killed over 1.7 million people, either by s...
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