The Flames.

DU used in US munitions has 60% of the radioactivity of natural uranium.[4] Trace transuranics (another indicator of the use of reprocessed material) have been reported to be present in some US tank armor.[4]

The use of DU in munitions is controversial because of concerns about potential long-term health effects.[5][6] Normal functioning of the kidney, brain, liver, heart, and numerous other systems can be affected by exposure to uranium, a toxic metal.[7] It is only weakly radioactive because of its long radioactive half-life (4.468 billion years for uranium-238, 700 million years for uranium-235; or 1 part per million every 6446 and 1010 years, respectively). The biological half-life (the average time it takes for the human body to eliminate half the amount in the body) for uranium is about 15 days.[8] The aerosol or spallation frangible powder produced by impact and combustion of depleted uranium munitions can potentially contaminate wide areas around the impact sites, leading to possible inhalation by human beings.[9]

this now seems less than well thought out
& will go away shortly
this was going to the link below but what I say is true, ...
Probably better not to comment, never mind offering to help. . . .

the link
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=2055633&tn=120

Donald, is this a cry for help?

Im not far from making some inquires as to where you are?

and where the hell are you going?

Please, I knew you way back ,but then, for 10 years(?) you were never seen.
What I don't want to do is tell tales without your version, it's all your story, I only know a small bit or two.

I was told long ago, not to get to invoved so I didn't.
Way back in the day, Munson(&Crew) only ever took you seriously when you were in the vicinity
And as you know others could be and were awful to you.

Unlike so many other N eastern climbers, in all my UsA travels we never once met up.
I then saw you at the small gym in the City,
I did not climb, I was belay slave to a blond girl, she is now my wife, you were, as always, puffy coat, jeans and Mt boots.
I don't know why I was there(might have had something to do with her) or why I remember it so clearly.

At the tail end of the 90s I would defended
"that limp-y guy with a cane, who stumbles up and SOLOS IN Mountain Boots"
Telling all those nO0bs, scared to see you fall to your death that "it was not going to happen, keep out of his way, watch and learn"




2nd try






Im not far away - do you need some sort of help?
can I help?

Ive had a few tic bites go south,
woke up near blind once, the Lyme's center in Westchester Med. has helped me & others that you might know.
I think you remember RAY,
(married an Asian women named HAY, live in Gardnier, on the banks of the river)
Before all that He was with Jody Rozin, & they both got wiped out from Lymes climbing at the cliff in Armonk.
you might ask at the rox store in New Paltz, see if Ray is still around.