Signs of war... 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
I'm sure this is new, because I've only told it to a handful of friends...
From 1995 to 1997 I was in the Army, stationed in Camp Casey, Korea, outside the village of Tongduchon. One weekend I went for a hike with a friend of mine. We walked across the valley and climbed one of the mountains to the north. We were used to seeing Korean War-era bunkers and trenches in the mountains, but this time we came across an aging microwave tower. Surrounding the tower was a clumpish circle of rusting razor wire decorated with tiny red triangular signs that said something in Korean. I crawled into the tangle of wire and retrieved one of the signs as a souveneir. The day progressed, we reached the top of the hill, looked around, and returned. When we got back to base, I went to one of the KATUSAs (Korean soldiers working with the US Army) to ask him what the sign meant.
He translated it as a single word -- "Landmines". Submitted on 05/28/2003
Submitted by:
Erin Corliss
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