The Army is still trying to identify an unknown liquid found inside one of two World War I-era weapons discovered three weeks ago, in Fort Totten Park, in Northeast D.C.
Two metal canisters discovered in Fort Totten Park in Northeast D.C., were World War I-era weapons, with physical similarities to chemical weapons found during a decades-long cleanup of a former chemical weapons site near the American University campus.
D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton has asked for an investigation into safety concerns after the 2020 discovery of an empty World War I shell at Fort Totten Park.