Here’s how the story goes …
Decades ago, there was an active U.S. Army post on Governors Island, in the heart of the New York Harbor in New York City.
Military families resided on the island and stories exist of children getting into mischief and rolling cannonballs down a hill. Some possibly making it all the way to the water’s edge and splashing into the harbor.
Cannonballs and other munitions or explosives of concern are believed to have wound up in the harbor in other ways as well.
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