The first refugee my Father helped to place in our community was Vietnamese, an officer and helicopter pilot in the ARVN. He had flown his family and neighbors out of the fall. He was educated here and was very fluent in English. I drew to duty of driving him around New England to and from corporate job interviews. We discussed what was going on in Cambodia and he told me then that a killing fields scenario would never happen in Viet Nam, that there would be “reeducation camps”, that overwork, poor nutrition and disease would do for the Communists what the killing fields did for the Khmer Rouge, and that the Communists would keep “reeducating” until the people they wanted dead were dead.

Slaughter is slaughter; whether via killing fields or via reeducation camps…that some will not see that is beyond contemptible.