lazydawgxx

In the early days of the Vietnam war the US was using a lot of left over ordnance from Korea & WWII; just good housekeeping; cleaning up messy armories. In 1966 I was helping the cleanup by supervising a bomb loading crew. We were loading lazydawgs which were a precursor to today's cluster bombs. They were basically a break apart shell with a couple thousand cute little cartoon bombs complete with fins but had no explosives. They just rained down on hapless people at terminal velocity. The guy who was supposed to do the arming forgot & pulled out the safety pin before putting in the arming wire & dumped the whole cannister on the ground. We were just dumping them & I stuck one in my pocket. Today's cluster bombs are thousands of times more efficient at creating carnage. In the military they call that progress. I sometimes pull it out of a can of keepsakes and just think.

"Toto; I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."

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