Bananas and UXO
This was posted on the local gulf coast gun forum during a discussion of Banana trees.
Banana trees scare me.......When I was in middle school at Kadena AB, Okinawa (77-80), a typhoon mangled the one in our back yard. My dad instructed me to haul it to the boonies, no problem at first. When I started pulling it the rest of the way out of the ground, there in the root slaw was a WWII American grenade.
Told my dad, he comes out, looks, calls EOD, they determine it can't be moved and destroyed it in place. I can't tell you how many times my little brother and I played in and around that tree and digging around the roots. I quit digging holes for the rest of our Okinawa tour.
Thank God, dad had taught me lesson and I didn't pick it up. A year or so earlier I was snorkeling and drug a Naval Shell up on the beach, that caused the beach to be shut down and EOD called out to deal with it. I couldn't sit for a week or so after that stunt.
He learnt me not to touch things that go booooooom.
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