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    Nach den Kriegen in den 1990er Jahren blieben in Kroatien und Bosnien und Herzegowina Minenfelder zurück

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    1. WillLife on

      Landmines are the most criminal elements of war, because they survive actively many years after it ends.

    3. Blueman9966 on

      Not too surprising, but the densest minefield areas line up pretty closely with the most static frontlines from both conflicts.

    4. happycj on

      First time is Osijek working with the peacekeeping forces, we stopped to take a piss. I got out of the vehicle stepped away, and was peeing into the snow … when my driver tells me to freeze and points out the UXO signs I passed getting to my piss spot. I was standing in an uncleared minefield. Pissing into the snow like some idiot.

      Seriously one of the most important moments in my life. Just a dopey American with zero experience in such places, and I got lucky. The sheer wave of thoughts that went through my head in that 20 seconds, before backing out to the road by carefully walking backwards and placing my feet in my footprints, is incredible to consider. Memories of school, family, band practices, shows I’d played, my ex-wife, cars and motorcycles I’d owned … and then whooshing to the present and realizing *people live here. Every day. With this bullshit.* And having a visceral feeling of the impact of the work we were doing there.

      A real moment of awakening, and realizing I’d taken a lot of things for granted in my comfy American life.

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