Hillary Clinton confronted a painful legacy of the Vietnam War yesterday when she met a man who lost his eyesight and both hands to a cluster bomb as she made the first visit to Laos by a US secretary of state in nearly six decades.
The US dropped more bombs on the Southeast Asian nation than it did on Germany and Japan combined in World War Two in a futile effort to destroy North Vietnamese supply lines to the South along the Ho Chi Minh trail.
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