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...More interesting are the later chapters, when we get a glimpse of the Joint Task Force (JTF), the U.S. military experts whose grim job is to search for, exhume and identify the bodies of U.S. soldiers missing in action in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. It would take a quarter-century before a JTF investigator happened upon the case of the missing photographers-who had not been counted among the military MIA-and a further two years before a JTF team started excavating Site 2062, sifting through earth and, in JTF parlance, "broken aircraft s___" for the tiniest bone fragment...
...wasn't going to let either money or the possibility of spinal dislocation stop me exploring the ravaged glory of this country. And so we struck out for Spean Praptos?Cambodia's most venerable bridge?and the overgrown temples of Beng Mealea. This is a round-trip of less than 140 kilometers, but in Cambodia it's a bone-numbing, dawn-to-dusk odyssey...
...historians, there's a weird irony in Cambodia's decrepit infrastructure. In the 12th century, King Jayavarman VII built highways that had few equals on earth. They can be seen from satellite photographs (although from the ground, few traces are apparent), with the longest running some 220 kilometers northwest to Phimai, in modern-day Thailand...
...TRAVEL Cambodia: Is Angkor Ruined...
...idle boast. Dy, 66, was part of a team of artists that drew up complete architectural blueprints of Angkor Wat in 1969 for the Ecole Fran?aise d'Extr?me Orient research organization. Those blueprints are proudly displayed on a wall in his workshop, along with an award from Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk in recognition of his work as an artist. In a visitors' book, one tourist rates this alternative Angkor "better than the helicopter trip to the real thing...