Unexploded WWII Bombs Haunt Palau During US Military Expansion
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. Palauan Sharla Paules surveys the contaminated ground of her lush tropical home island of Peleliu, still littered with WWII munitions 80 years after its liberation from the Japanese. She recalls as a child her grandmother warning the land was poisoned by…
