Mr Ely has since turned the chunk of statue into a piece of war relic art he hopes to sell to raise money for military charities and groups, including Birmingham's Royal Centre for Defence Medicine which treats wounded soldiers.
But in a strange sort of way a lot of it was like looking though a keyhole at a very small piece of the war.
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The loaded artillery piece was one of two Revolutionary War-era cannons being stored at the park's Ramble shed, near the 79th Street transverse, according to the affiliate.
When pressed he said it was a piece of unexploded ordnance left over from the Vietnam War.
Nobody, I know from experience, there's nothing the United States Congress can do by a piece of legislation to alter the conduct of a war that the President decides to pursue.
Not so long ago a small piece of land on the edge of a continent was at war, torn by religious and cultural differences, with its two peoples disputing the ownership of the land that both claimed as rightfully theirs.
Okolloh, 31, created the site using Ushahidi, a free piece of software that quickly creates Web sites to which eyewitnesses of war and crisis in out-of-reach places can send news by e-mail or text and have it attached to a Google map.
Winning the war for Microsoft would mean having to use a piece of the company's software in almost anything one did with respect to using a computer.
Ms Gun revealed she was strongly anti-war but said she had not been looking for a piece of information to leak and embarrass the government.
On the sidewalk during the long vacation months we played a new game called "I Declare War, " using a cheap rubber ball and a piece of chalk.
Buyers tempted by the idea of owning a piece of architectural history should remember that it's rarely as straightforward as winning a bidding war.
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