FILE PHOTO OF SINGER MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER, 1997-12-24 (photo)

Until you actually see a land mine victim, you cannot begin to understand how they have suffered. Mary Chapin Carpenter says that is what led her and fellow singer-songwriters to Cambodia, to see for themselves what they are helping to raise public awareness about on behalf of the Campaign for a Landmine Free World. "The tragedy is hard to fathom. Until you do see it you don't really understand it," said the Grammy award-winner, who joined fellow singer-songwriter Terry Allen and others from the campaign for a few days last month to visit its weaving project employing amputees in the northern province of Preah Vihear. Carpenter is shown in a file photo performing in front of some 1,000 U.S. soldiers serving with the NATO-led peace force in Bosnia during her visit to "Eagle Base" near Tuzla, December 24, 1997. HB/