On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:12:38 -0600, Ignoramus17663
wrote:
A long time ago, near Moscow, I was working on a fall potato harvest
with my class, and one girl found an unexploded mortar shell from
WWII, I would say 3-4 lb weight.
I doubt the following statement from Wikipedia:
It has been estimated that, for every square metre of territory on the
front from the coast to the Swiss border, a tonne of explosives
fell. One shell in every four[2] (some sources say one in every
three[3]) did not detonate. The Canadian National Vimy Memorial Site
is notable for supposedly having one unexploded munition for every
square metre.
Sounds a little excessive.
i
see you havent studied WW1 much.
You think war today is hell?
WW1 was what Dante was thinking about when he talked about Hell.
900 TONS of munitons a year are harvested in Belgium alone each
year...and have been for many many many years....
Gunner
On 2009-01-09, Gunner Asch wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_harvest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexploded_ordnance
http://www.flanders1917.info/26-Toda...vest_quot_.htm
http://unitedcats.wordpress.com/2007...est-continues/
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2...84369162_x.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Trench-Art-Mat...533768&sr=11-1
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The more you present a leftist with factual evidence
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more difficult it becomes for him to refute it without
losing face the chance of him calling you a racist, bigot,
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