Sleeping at the police station our first night was tough. We slept on a hard concrete floor. They offered us two small pillows, so that was our only comfort. The location next to the main road was the biggest problem. All night long, twenty feet from the busiest road in the country, was the sound…
By Paul Hyde I agreed to do the Freedom Walk with my dad about a week ahead of time. I decided to go because we were going to do it in honor of my mom and of those survivors who did the walk as well. I was blessed not to be born during the Pol…
Walking hurts. I know people are curious, but too polite to ask how much I weight, so let me break the ice and offer it to you. In February I weighed 412 pounds. Eeek! Then I got exercising and on a special low-carb diet and when I started walking this morning I weighed 372 pounds. …
Today Noit led me to the very spot where she was held during most of her time as a slave of the Khmer Rouge. Though the houses were gone and new ones built, the waterways were dried up and the stench of death was gone, she led us exactly to the spot where her little…
When I was a Boy Scout, each year all the troops in the Philippines would converge across from Corregidor Island in Manila Bay. It was completely voluntary, but I went many years in a row. During the start of World War II, General Douglas MacArthur was commander of the Pacific forces which were based in…