Guy lives for decades with shrapnel in him from WW2...

[Archae]

Ronald Brown stepped on a land mine while on a mission in France in August 1944.

The blast peppered his left leg with red-hot fragments and he was forced to crawl two miles to safety.

But because of medical conditions of the day it was thought safer to leave shrapnel in his body.

He survived the war but only ever told his family the basic story and said the accident had left him with a 'bad knee'.

Mr Brown told loved ones he still had a 'bullet' in his leg and asked his grandchildren not to sit on his knee because of the pain it caused.

But when he died last week aged 94 his family had him cremated and were stunned when staff handed them back a big bag of shrapnel.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/9618342/Weighty-memento-war-veterans-secret-revealed-after-his-death.html

[Javaman]

1. Good God. nt

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. My uncle had WW2 shrapnel throughout his body

He was in the Marines and fought in at least a half dozen battles including Guadalcanal. They kept patching him up and sending him in again. But I doubt he had quite that much. That's a heck of a lot!

[shraby]

3. My dad had shrapnel in his back and I was grown and Mom said small pieces were still

working out of his back. I was born not long before he went into war.

[Historic NY]

4. Thats a hardware store.