To: kms61
Oh Geez. That's not positive, any plans afoot to dig it out or detonate it safely?
To: Threepwood
No, I don't think it's possible to do anything with it safely. I read about it in "A Storm In Flanders," a history of WWI in the Ypres Salient, by Winston Groom. He's the guy who wrote Forrest Gump, and is also quite a good military historian.
As I recall, this thing is a tunnel a couple of miles long, packed with many tons of something similar to ammonium nitrate. I'm not sure anybody even knows *exactly* where it is on the battlefield at this point.
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08/03/2003 1:26:34 AM PDT by
kms61
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