This morning i can thank the U.S 8th Airforce or the RAF for being late to work.
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So this morning i had to walk the whole distance to work as opposed to taking the U Bahn as i normally ride to get to the office. The reason the U Bahn was closed was because near a construction site near a bridge close to my office hey dug up a 70 year World War 2 bomb that was intact. From what ive read they dig them up all the time and from time to ime they actually kill people when they explode.Some of my colleagues tell me they might actually have to evacuate the area.
Weird to think that the path i walk to work on a daily basis was once a war zone.
Weird to think that the path i walk to work on a daily basis was once a war zone.
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even weirder to think your on my Linkedin as a contact...dum,dum,dum..
Hearing about these things reminds me of seeing the Kaiser Wilhelm church when I was younger, massive respect to the german people for keeping such reminders
And that every time you walk to work, you may be walking over bombs deep in the earth.
a few years back i catched a documentation on TV about the US led invasion on the western front in '44. much to my surprise they showed footage of the very street corner i used to live on in aachen (aix-la-chapelle) for a few years being ripped apart in the firefight.
i was told here in cologne, which was heavily bombarded, the first thing they do at any construction site is have the bomb defusal squad look for hidden 'treasures' in the ground. occasionally they are forced to detonate them on site.