It has been more than 30 years since the end of the Vietnam War.
But the war didn't really end when the helicopters lifted off from the roof of the U.S. embassy in Saigon. In fact, for hundreds of people, the war went on and on, month after month, year after year.
In fact, it is still going on as leftover land mines continue to claim lives all these years later.
Consider this recent report in a Cambodian newspaper:
The number of people injured or killed by land mines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) this past June was 17 percent higher than last year's figure, according to a recent report from the Cambodia Mine/UXO Victim Information System (CMVIS).
The report, released Thursday, stated that of 21 total casualties, 12 people were injured, two lost limbs and seven were killed.
Heng Ratana, director general of the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC), said the June figures were a deviation from the long-term decline in casualties in recent years, though he noted that figures from month to month were unpredictable.
"It [the number of casualties] is irregular ... because the mines are in the ground, no one knows where they are," he said.
Land-mine deaths and injuries in Cambodia are reported the way we report housing starts or retail sales -- up or down from the same month last year.
These people have been living with this for decades, losing loved ones slowly and steadily every month, every year. And it goes mostly unnoticed in the rest of the world.
Just imagine if your neighborhood, your community, the land you have to farm to sustain your family, was riddled with mines and nobody could remember where they were placed and you just had to take your chances.
It's a big reason why land mines need to be banned permanently everywhere, why the United States needs to sign the international treaty banning mines.
Here's another: Iraq is littered with an estimated 25 million land mines, most of them left over from the Iran-Iraq War. These mines will surely be killing Iraqis for decades to come.