Chout Diem leaves his leg on the steps up to his home in...

VEAL THOM, KAMPONG SPEU, CAMBODIA - 2003/08/01: Chout Diem leaves his leg on the steps up to his home in Veal Thom. He has lived there for two years. He lost his leg at the age of 14 when he was a soldier in the Lon Nol army in the early 70s. Deep in the hinterlands, down a rutted dirt road, a small village shelters the remnants of Cambodia’s civil war. Some 200 disabled veterans - both Khmer Rouge and government soldiers - and their families have moved to Veal Thom, or “Big Field.” There they build huts, grow rice, cultivate flowers and do what society will not allow in their homelands: live in peace. Though they lost limbs and parts of their lives in Cambodia's civil war, their wounds mark them as outcasts in the Cambodian society.. (Photo by Jerry Redfern/LightRocket via Getty Images)