Word: pond
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pond's high school years were spent in the "cold jungle of New Hampshire." Unable to speak English, he failed all of his classes. Faced with mockery and failure, "I wanted to kill myself," Pond said...
Thompson, who Pond calls a sister, helped him survive during his high school years. "For what I'm doing, for whom I'm becoming, I owe it to people like Judy [Thompson]," Pond said...
Together, Pond and Thompson founded the "Children of War" program. The program brings children from 22 countries including the U.S. together to share their universal experiences growing up in environments marked by violence and pain...
This program allowed Pond to share his story of personal struggle, which included witnessing his nine-year-old friends axed to death by the Khmer Rouge and coping with the death of nine of his 11 siblings...
...introduction Thompson praised Pond for his unique ability to "talk about what it means to be a human being from the position of both innocence and wisdom...