Word: arnes
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...Arn Chorn Pond, founder of the first community service organization in Cambodia, shared his life experiences last night in Agassiz Theater, imploring the Harvard community to engage in public service...
Battle carries its own excitements, and children are as susceptible to those fevers as adults. Arn Chorn was ten when he was sent to Wat Aik, a Buddhist temple in Cambodia converted into a concentration camp by the Khmer Rouge. He spent two years there, a witness to daily butcheries, and he endured them in a state of numbness. When Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1978, he was sent to fight with the Khmer Rouge army. It was a new kind of terror, but he quickly got used to life on patrol in swampy jungles. Frightened the first time he fired...
Taken in by an American family in 1980, Arn Chorn is now 22 and a college student in Rhode Island. He understands in retrospect that he was brainwashed into becoming a Khmer Rouge. Yet he also remembers how thrillingly fright and excitement mixed. He can still describe the sweaty terror before an attack, squatting in the reeds, trembling. Then the fear metabolized into adrenaline, enhanced by the delight of pumping an automatic rifle. "Sometimes," he says, "you enjoy yourself in battle...