ATHENS, ALABAMA (AP) – People donate items to classrooms and teachers all the time, but an Alabama school is turning around the theme by donating a missile and a tank-like carrier painted red, white and blue to a veterans museum.
An MGM-52 Lance Missile, once capable of delivering nuclear or conventional weapons before it was deactivated at the end of the Cold War, and an M752 launcher have sat outside the old Athens High School for decades. They were donated to the school’s ROTC programme in the 1970s, The News Courier reported.
“Whenever we had visitors call and ask for our location, we would tell them to just follow the ‘tank’,” said senior Army JROTC instructor James L Chambers.
