Souvenirs From War: Stay Back -- New York Times
Many veterans of World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam brought home tales of heroism and valor and, unbeknownst to their loved ones, potentially explosive war souvenirs.
The police in Bangor, Me., received a call this month: a woman found a live hand grenade in a moving box, where it had probably sat for decades. She believed that it belonged to her late husband, who served in the Vietnam War and probably brought it home as a keepsake.
A bomb squad was summoned to detonate it.
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My Comment: The only souvenirs my father kept were his medals from the Second World War .... and his nightmares.