Ho Van Lai was 13 years old when he and some friends were playing soccer in central Vietnam with what turned out to be an unexploded cluster bomb, which are scattered all over the central region of that nation. The bomb exploded, killing two of the children and leaving Lai severely injured. He lost a leg, an arm, part of a foot, a thumb, and an eye.

First published in the November 22, 2019, 12:31 a.m. edition

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