December 26, 2024

The Air Force demolished 15 Civil War cannonballs in Charleston. But should they have?

The day after Hurricane Matthew made landfall, someone spotted a few rusted hunks of metal. It was a bunch of 17 Civil War cannonballs, fused together for a century and a half, newly uncovered by a ferocious sea. The passerby called the police, the police called an Air Force bomb squad, they destroyed the bombs. Some say they should have saved the for a museum.

The Air Force demolished 15 Civil War cannonballs in Charleston. But should they have?