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Modern Wars will continue to take lives for generations after the last shot has been fired and the ink has long since dried on the yellowing treaties that closed it. Along the battlefields of Napoleon, nearly two hundred years ago, farmers continue to dig up live shells. In Vicksburg recently a contractor building a house had to get assistance from an Ordinance Disposal group from Camp Shelby to disarm unexploded rounds from its siege in 1863. Agents Orange, Purple and others are calling for their butcher’s bill from the veterans of South East Asia on both sides of the ocean. Depleted Uranium is being investigated for its link to Gulf War Syndrome.

On New Years Eve 2006 in Great Britain an elderly pensioner, Mr. Leslie Croft died of broncho-pneumonia at age 86. In 1943 Mr Croft was a 19 year old British soldier and a part of the Yorkshire and Lancashire Regimen. He served with the regiment in Italy and there, fighting the Axis forces, he received a wound from shrapnel. The wound was healed and then Corporal Croft eventually returned to service. The effects of the wound however would come back to haunt him years later. The shell fragment that remained in his body was linked by the coroner who examined him as being the cause of his pneumonia.

And the history books change……..Rest in Peace Corporal Croft.