In spite of all our differences, the one thing that binds all living creatures is that we each have an expiration date. This finality to our existence is what makes life special, something to be cherished and protected. But occasionally things can go terribly wrong…
The U.S. Civil War has claimed another casualty 143 years after it ended, adding to the 618,000 people who lost their lives in the deadly conflict.
Sam White, a Civil War buff who crisscrossed the Virginia countryside in search of wartime relics, was killed in his driveway when a cannonball he was restoring exploded. The old cannonball was still powerful enough to send a chunk of shrapnel through the front porch of a house a quarter-mile from White’s home near Richmond.
White’s death "shook the close-knit fraternity of relic collectors and raised concerns about the dangers of other Civil War munitions that lay buried beneath old battlefields. Explosives experts said the fatal blast defied extraordinary odds. You can’t drop these things on the ground and make them go off."
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