This is an interview with a Lao man and his three young daughters in 2004 about a year after his wife was killed by a bombie when they were working on their rice paddy. I had met him two weeks after the bombie incident while I was leading my second study tour to Laos and we were in Phonsavan to visit the Plain of Jars and visit the UXO Lao facilities because I wanted the teachers to see what the legacy the Lao faced after American bombing during the Secret War. A Tragic UXO Story Bounpheng is a medical assistant in the Lao army earning about $15 (150000 kip) a month. Life had been a constant struggle for him and his wife and three daughters, ages 5, 3, and 1 and finally after five years he and his wife saved enough money to buy a small plot of land which they then planned to develop into a rice paddy. One morning in early June 2003 he, his wife and children all walked to their newly acquired land where he and his wife then began the arduous work of preparing it for rice planting. In the middle of the land, there was a pile of dirt that looked like a termite hill. He and his wife tried to flatten the termite hill and as noon time approached his wife told him to leave early to take care of the baby so she could continue to work a little bit more. As soon as Bounpheng turned away, he heard a loud explosion and saw his wife laying on the ground covered in blood. There was no one near he could call for help and so he picked up his wifes limp and lifeless body and carried it <b>...</b>