If you care too much about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner. Lao Tzu
During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a crash site. He presented photographs showing himself in company with others digging around obvious aircraft debris.
The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.
Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.
Confucius is like the Torah, rules to follow. And Lao-Tzu is even more conservative, saying that if you do nothing you won't break any rules. You have to let tradition fall sometime, you have to take action, you have to eat bacon.