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Re:American WWII bomb explodes at Japanese airport, causing ... by ddejohn on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @04:41PM (#41724792)
I always like to share this [1] article about a UXO team working in La Zone Rouge. These are UXO from WWI. It's pretty haunting.

[1] https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-forbidden-forest/

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Re:American WWII bomb explodes at Japanese airport, causing ... by y-curious on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @08:01PM (#41726079)
"At the current rate of clearance it is a conservative estimate that the Département du Déminage will still be finding these weapons nine hundred years from now."

"Haunting" is right.

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