A Khmer American at oudam.com writes about his upcoming trip to Cambodia from the United States of America. After his family left Cambodia as refugees to settle in the U.S. in 1981, this will be his seventh trip back to his family’s home country. Yet, he sees Cambodia a second-home.

On my first trip back to Cambodia I really did not know what to expect. Since I left at the age of just nine years old, my memory of Srok Khmer was at best limited to bits and pieces of events that took place in the Killing Fields. I could recall being hungry and having to work all the time, but I could remember very few details about our whereabouts or what was happening around us.