[mware]

Navy, if you get the chance go to the American History Museum in Washington DC.

They have the trunk of a tree that was literally cut down by shot.

It's the damnist thing.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/exhibition/flash.html?path=5.10.r_704

[RobinOfKingston]

They have the trunk of a tree that was literally cut down by shot.

I took basic training at Fort Lewis in 1966. Among the first there for many years. Birch trees had grown up down range on the rifle ranges. I remember, as firing was going on, the birch trees behind the targets being whittled down by bullets.

[NavyCanDo]

Great website, Thanks for sharing. I know what I will be looking at during lunch today.

[MplsSteve]

I’ve seen it before.

The tree was in the center of the Mule Shoe Salient at the battle of Spotsylvania Court House.

Read some on-line accounts of the battle or pick up “Bloody Roads South” by Noah Trudeau.