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Educating families on landmine awareness at times seems fruitless, when faced with the
fact that thousands of innocent civilians are maimed or killed each year, and half of the
children in your classroom are amputees. ...
To help understand the problem, we will discuss what a landmine is, and the danger it
imposes. An anti-personnel landmine defined in layman’s terms is a small explosive
device placed under the surface of the earth, triggered to explode upon intimate contact
with a person. ... Another
reason for the “abandoned” mines is that it is much safer to place a landmine, than to
recover one. ... The periodical, Landmine Monitor, reports that five
to ten men die each day in Afghanistan, due to landmine accidents.
Approximate Word count = 591 Approximate Pages = 2.4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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