I wondered what I could do. The problem isn't that we don't care. We're rarely given the chance. Most of our news about war is dominated by quotes from pundits, debate about economic sanctions, dispatches on the latest counteroffensive. But war is not only about weaponry and economics and aging generals grasping for more power.
War is about little girls playing in a village.
I returned to the Thai-Burma border as a journalist, but I wanted to write a story of the heart. I longed to find those two little orchid girls. They were real. They haunted me. I needed to know what war had done to them, what it was doing to me, what it can do to us all.