Word: shrapnel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well as hot plastic fragments which are undetectable by X-rays when embedded in the body. These pellets can't pierce steel, cement, or sandbags--they are designed to tear unprotected human flesh. One mother bomb can saturate an area the size of ten football fields with lethal shrapnel. Time-delay fuses are designed to explode some bomblets before they hit the earth so as to kill those sheltered in trenches; other bomblets don't explode until well after the air raid, when medical assistance has entered the bombed area...
...testified that Camil was equippint the fire-teams with M-1 carbines, grenades and home-made chemical bombs with fiberglass shrapnel...
Lemmer testified that Camil called the M-1 carbine "an ideal weapon for urban guerilla warfare" and showed Lemmer home-made chemical bombs, "anti-personnel devices" that spewed fiberglass shrapnel, and $2.60 wrist-rocket slingshots
Metal weapons detectors at the entrance to the building were set off by shrapnel still embedded in the bodies of three of the Vietnam war veterans...
...abandon the arms of the flowers of shrapnel and of the bloody marches of the war in Angola...