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Lest we forget the true nature of war, it should be noted that British and American bombs are discovered all over the place in Germany too, every year. And sti
by fit2rule 11y ago
Lest we forget the true nature of war, it should be noted that British and American bombs are discovered all over the place in Germany too, every year. And still cause casualties, alas.
- m-i-l 11y agoYes - from today's news at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32897388 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32897388 "Some 20,000 people in the German city of Cologne have been forced to leave their homes as authorities defuse a one-tonne bomb from World War Two".
- jstalin 11y agoI've also heard that WWI munitions are routinely found in France still, with farmers still getting killed occasionally.
- kaybe 11y agoThe topic even has its own wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_harvest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_harvest
- kuschku 11y agoAnd there are more interesting articles related to it, like https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_rouge_%28s%C3%A9quelles_de_guerre%29 https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_rouge_%28s%C3%A9quelles_d... (Try using Google Translate if you don’t understand french – the english article just is far too short)
- gadders 11y agoAnd some people try to take them through the Channel Tunnel on Eurostar: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32690320 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32690320
- kaybe 11y agoWikipedia has numbers: Every year, about 5,500 duds are removed (sometimes, evacuation of several 10,000 people included), the daily average is given as 15. In 2013 an estimated 100,000 were remaining. Wars suck, for everyone and for a long time. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexploded_ordnance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexploded_ordnance + the german article)