[CPEO-MEF] "Casualties of War" (UXO)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Casualties of War
Lives and Limbs Are On the Line As The Gov't Scrambles to Clean Up 
Hundreds of Old Military Training Sites

By CHRIS FRANCESCANI
ABC NEWS Law & Justice Unit
January 24, 2008

Last summer, Florida resident Michael Tatum learned that his brand-new, 
custom-built, 3-bedroom home was sitting on a former World War II 
bombing range and that the earth beneath his yard was littered for acres 
in every direction with hundreds of unexploded bombs and other munitions.

"I made the biggest investment of my life," he said last week of the 
home he purchased with his wife. "We didn't buy a three bedroom because 
we were expecting guests. We wanted to grow a family here."

"Now," he said, "I can't give it away."

Tatum is not alone.

There are currently 1,544 sites around the nation - in every state - 
that contain unexploded bombs, mortar rounds and other munitions, 
covering about 10 million acres, according to government records and 
experts interviewed by ABC News.

...

For the entire article, see
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=4179408&page=1

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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