. >> for more on laos, we go to new mexico public television in albuquerque to speak with karen coates jerry redfern, the coffers of a remarkable new -- co-authors of a remarkable new book called, "eternal harvest: the legacy of american bombs in laos." they spent more than seven years in laos working on the book. welcome to democracy now! karen, why did you write this book and talk about the significance of this month, the 50th anniversary of the largest, most significant were the largest bombing in history. country inin the 2005 to work on an article for archaeology magazine. at that point we believing in -- we have been living in the region for many years. we had no idea the extent of the problem until we were there that trip. in about two weeks during that time, we have heard of more than 20 accident around the region where we were. we sort of looked at each other and said, this is much bigger a much bigger problem than we realized. one day, we went to local hospital and encountered a 10-year-old boy who had been in a farm field digging when he hit something, most likely a bombie w