Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Kids collecting shrapnel on a London street, 1940

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There’s actually an academic article written on this topic.

PDF: 2008 A Hard Rain: Children’s Shrapnel Collections in the Second World War. Journal of Material Culture 13(1):107-125.

 

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