Where he is trying to get some Laotian Villages connected on a wireless network. After the protests, here's what he wrote to me;

Dear friends,

I, for one, am moved by so many people say on CNN today - from all over the world - that they do not want war. Given my history, I was particularly moved by the father of a currently serving Marine saying that he not only did not want his son to be killed or injured, but also did not want his son to suffer for a lifetime from killing he might have to do. Amen to that!

You can ask just about anyone in Laos what they think of war, if you want. People here, as far as I can see and hear, are through with war. The thing about war is that it does not work any more. Abstracting weapons like bombs kill civilians in great number. Face-to-face killing rarely happens - but when it does the survivor's see the other's face the rest of their lives - perhaps not always, but more often than any one of us not in the survivor's shoes, can imagine. And there are no rituals to overcome this damage. All lose.

I am through with war and so are all my friends here.

We hang out with unlikely people and try to listen. After that we may all choose to act together ... with love really ... and all that love entails including miscommunication, lack of communications, mistakes, and mutual ignorance of each other's cultures. What we never do is violence. What we always do is ... hang out and hang in.

Thanks for hanging in with us. We had our little set-back as Kevin tells so well below ... and we're using this opportunity to learn more and do better and mend relationships that got slightly tattered amidst all the stress.

We're adult. Flawed adults, especially me, but adults nonetheless.

War ... now there's a non-adult activity.

I pray we grow up in time.
yours, in Peace,
Lee