From the October 19, 2012, New York Daily News "Cremated remains of WWII British Army veteran included 6 oz. of shrapnel from land mine" by Victoria Cavaliere.
Ronald Brown, 94, died last week in England and was cremated. When his ashes were returned, along with them came six ounces of shrapnel.
He had been plagued by knee problems for seventy years after he stepped on a land mine in France in 1944 and had thought it was just a bullet.
Brown joined the Army at age 21 and stepped on the mine two months after D-Day as Allied forces fought their way to Berlin.
His old wound would set off airport scanners when he would fly to the United States or Australia.
I Told You It Hurt. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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