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Article: Like Vietnam, napalm weapons difficult to make go away.(Originated from Orange County Register)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- November 22, 1995
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FALLBROOK, Calif. _ They are scattered over these dusty hillsides by the thousands, olive-drab remnants of a long-lost war. Though they look like high-explosive bombs, they actually contain a substance that many people seem to find even more horrible and terrifying:
Napalm.
For more than 20 years these cigar-shaped aluminum canisters have sat here at the U.S. Naval Ordnance Center Fallbrook Detachment, next to Camp Pendleton, like soldiers without a mission. The conflict they were built for _ the Vietnam War _ ended before some of them even rolled off the assembly line. And napalm is, officially, no longer even a part of the U.S. military arsenal.
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