Soeun Sam - a proud handicap bookseller in Phnom Penh: Interview by Theary Seng

[SithSereyPheap1]

I'm trying to put myself in his situation.How am i supposed to wipe my arse if i too lost both my arms and how will i provide for myself and my family,the wife and kids.I dont have any wife and kids,but lets just make believe that i do.Quite a challenge and he managed pretty well....

[SithSereyPheap1]

A twist of fate so cruel.One moment he had it all,his arms and legs and moments later he lost it all.Life have ways of exacting the price,no matter who you are.Every dogs have his days and Hun Sen shall have his.But i hate to see bad things happened to good people,that's when fate is truly cruel and merciless..

[SithSereyPheap1]

He too could have graduated from Columbia,but fate took him to the Frontline....

[SithSereyPheap1]

Find us some justice Theary ! Miss Harvard Law who passed the bar or was it Columbia ;)))) ?

[SithSereyPheap1]

It's heartbreaking.A lifetime of service to the country trying to oust the vietnamese and now the cpp practically laid down a red carpet for the gooks of hanoi to waltz their way into our soil,a soil fought for and hard earned through blood,sweat,years and tears and the appaling tolls on the lives of millions of Cambodian..my heart bleed for this man,my country men entirely..

[SithSereyPheap1]

Help him qualified and get his G.I bills Theary ! where is his compensation for service to the country ? where is his veteran disability benefits ? look like he licked his own wounds back to life.A self healer,he need to be sent to rehab programs or something for psychological trauma evaluation. I know i'm not 100%,nobody can come out of Khmer Rouge Regime 100%,not even you Theary ! a little off balance somewhere in the memory bank,if not physical scar of war,than mental,emotional scars..

[SithSereyPheap1]

This guy might took out a couple of VC back in the days,more service to the country than most of us ever done probably..

[SithSereyPheap1]

Treat everybody with respect.Every man in Cambodia have a tragic story to tell.You dont really know who he is before,the man he used to be.His role,his status in society,his position,his rank,his service or diservice to the country.So before you pass and deliver any judgements on a man,you best get to know him first Theary ! he might not live in palaces,but his nobility may exceed that of a king.He might be Khmer Rouge,but he also take order from high the commands,he's a soldier.

[SithSereyPheap1]

Theary ! is he selling any of your books ? ;))))))

[SithSereyPheap1]

Damn what a bummer,this guy in the video lost both arms..how the hell he managed to wipe his arse after he sht ? jump in the river and wiggle around or what ? well anway i'm proud of him for making a living on his own without begging..

[SithSereyPheap1]

I stepped on reef snakes in the rice field several time,got stunk by scorpions countless times in Cambodia,everytime i found a hole in the ground i alway reached in searching for food.Sometime pull out snakes,frogs,crabs,snails,wate­r beetles,even catfish in the hole.I'm alway out in the field and in the wood collecting honey and ant eggs,lizards,geckos,but i never step on land mines,borned lucky.For fun,i once threw a bucket of bullets into a fire during viet invasion,not a single bullet hit me.

[SithSereyPheap1]

Well anyway i still have all my arms,legs and limbs.Everything is intact...even the family jewel.

[SithSereyPheap1]

I was attacked by wild boars in Prey Jrouk Province in 79.Thank God for a brave older brother,he came charging out of nowhere beating them porkers senseless with a log.I was wandering around a huge man made fish pond behind my grandfather house when the wild boars came charging at me.It was protecting it's young offsprings.They were feeding veggies and roots around the fish pond.I owed my life to my older brother,who is now a church pastor.

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I dont know how i survived when i was a kid living in Srok Puork Province.I go out into the wood and chopped bamboo all the time and than load it up onto the ox wagon before steering my way back into town with a couple of cattles name " A kjong and Ah Kjao ",we harvest bamboo shoots also.We never encounter or step on any land mines,my brothers and i.Old men in our province called us The golden Boys,because we survived every obstacles thrown at us.I Thank God everyday for my arms,legs and limbs.