Very interesting article in Smithsonian magazine

Douglas Jr. · 09-29-2016, 02:30 PM

Once an IT from France worked with me developing a customized legal suit control software.
Well, one day during our lucnh time, conversation turned into history and World Wars. He then told me that while he was a boy back in the 70s his father owned a farm in the french countryside. When the time to plow the land arrived they always found unexploded ordnance buried in their fields. They put everything in a pile and then call a special division of the Police (or Army) to collect and dispose of them. It was like a routine...

kurusu · 09-29-2016, 02:55 PM

You may google:

Red zone France, it's from WW-I.

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09-29-2016, 02:30 PM	#1
Douglas Jr. User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: South America Posts: 948 Thanks: 598 Thanked 584 Times in 254 Posts	Once an IT from France worked with me developing a customized legal suit control software. Well, one day during our lucnh time, conversation turned into history and World Wars. He then told me that while he was a boy back in the 70s his father owned a farm in the french countryside. When the time to plow the land arrived they always found unexploded ordnance buried in their fields. They put everything in a pile and then call a special division of the Police (or Army) to collect and dispose of them. It was like a routine...

09-29-2016, 02:55 PM	#2
kurusu User Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 1,225 Thanks: 2,679 Thanked 930 Times in 509 Posts	You may google: Red zone France, it's from WW-I.