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“War was tough. In the rainy season we couldn’t get rice. The supplies stopped coming. We ate wild spinach we found in the forest. I can’t count how many times i was bombed. Everywhere, they bombed. And everywhere there were cluster bombs. I remember the kids going to school wearing helmets. . . After the war, the government gave me land to grow rice.”