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War: The legacy that keeps on killing...
Nov. 10th, 2002 05:00 pmNo, George, No, Tony: No new wars for you til you tidy up the mess you made with your old ones...
"There are stories of careless tourists and souvenir hunters and "experts" who knew just a little less than they thought who have crippled, poisoned or blown themselves up in the last few years tampering with shells, mines and grenades found lying around.
"Eighty years after the guns fell silent the bomb disposal squad from this area is still finding and then defusing or destroying hundreds of tonnes of unexploded ammunition every year.
"It sometimes seems that the shadow this Great War cast over this unhappy ground will never lift.
"As the shell cases begin to rot, toxic chemicals begin to poison The soil and seep, slowly into the water supply.
"Ask how long this work might last and you get a shrug, "Three, four hundred years, hard to say"."
Legacy of War: World War I Battlefields are Still Deadly Today
"There are stories of careless tourists and souvenir hunters and "experts" who knew just a little less than they thought who have crippled, poisoned or blown themselves up in the last few years tampering with shells, mines and grenades found lying around.
"Eighty years after the guns fell silent the bomb disposal squad from this area is still finding and then defusing or destroying hundreds of tonnes of unexploded ammunition every year.
"It sometimes seems that the shadow this Great War cast over this unhappy ground will never lift.
"As the shell cases begin to rot, toxic chemicals begin to poison The soil and seep, slowly into the water supply.
"Ask how long this work might last and you get a shrug, "Three, four hundred years, hard to say"."
Legacy of War: World War I Battlefields are Still Deadly Today
