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To: attiladhun2

Heck, still a lot of WWI and WWII stuff out there.


16 posted on 05/02/2008 5:50:01 PM PDT by dynachrome (Immigration without assimilation means the death of this nation~Captainpaintball)
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To: dynachrome

Tons of it. Be careful metal detecting around old military bases. The ground might be loaded.


21 posted on 05/02/2008 5:54:37 PM PDT by attiladhun2 (Obama is the anti-Reagan, instead of opposing the world's tyrants, he wants to embrace them)
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To: dynachrome
Heck, still a lot of WWI and WWII stuff out there.

My sister visited the Verdun battlefield in France back in the 70s. While there, the TV carried a report of another farmer killed when his plow hit a WWI shell. She said that after a rain you could see the stuff sticking up out of the ground.

On a slightly different note, again in the 70s, I attended a college symposium by some think tank guys. One person asked why China couldn't lob a nuke at Russia, blame America, and watch the two superpowers destroy themselves.

The guy shocked the audience by saying, "The first bomb is free." You could hear the gasp and I thought WTF? These guys are crazy.

He then explained that we had a reciprocal agreement with Russia not to hit the button if a huge explosion took place on their soil. As a case in point, he said that the Russians were excavating an area jusr outside of Stalingrad in preparation for another block of tenements. In the process they uncovered a vast ammunition dump abandoned by the Germans. He said it contained over 20,000 tons of explosives and that all a bulldozer had to do was hit one of the shells the wrong way with it's blade to create a Hiroshima-strength explosion.

37 posted on 05/02/2008 7:20:12 PM PDT by Oatka (A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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