section_path: Legacy and memory/Unexploded ordnance
section_name: Unexploded ordnance
paragraph_text: Unexploded ordnance
  
  As late as 2007, unexploded ordnance at battlefield sites like Verdun and Somme continued to pose a danger. In France and Belgium, locals who discover caches of unexploded munitions are assisted by weapons disposal units. In some places, plant life has still not recovered from the effects of the war.