Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. They wait with menacing silence and near invisibility in the fields of Cambodia, on the paths of Angola, in the hills of Bosnia, and elsewhere around the globe.
Land mines are patient.
Sam Soa was trying to find his cow in a field near his village when he stepped on a mine. I didn't realize what had happened, and I tried to run away. Land mines also attack those who come to help. Ken Rutherford, an American worker with the International Rescue Committee, was traveling a dusty rural road in Somalia when a blast tore off his right foot. It kept falling off.