https://www.scmp.com/rss/329409/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Thanksgiving is an American tradition that is unknown in most of the world. Fifty years ago, however, it landed in Laos, the small, impoverished Southeast Asian nation that was to become perhaps the longest-suffering casualty of the United States’ war in Vietnam. Thanksgiving is held on the fourth Thursday in November. In 1968, that fell on November 28, and on that day, at the height of the war and on the orders of president Lyndon B. Johnson, turkey dinners were helicoptered in to American... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2173220/200-years-go-laos-cleared-unexploded-us-bombs?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2173220/200-years-go-laos-cleared-unexploded-us-bombs?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Nov 2018 19:00:00 +0000