Here and there lay rusting bits of military equipment, burned-out tanks, and wrecked trucks.

Springs lay rusting on the floor amid the crumbling frame of an ancient sofa.

Along the surrounding roads lay rusting carcasses of tanks and armored personnel carriers, burned and abandoned.

The pistol lay rusting at the bottom of what was by now probably a Vietnamese field.

A gold pan lay rusting, half filled with rock and dirt, by a bench before the cabin.

Fold-out chairs with slashed leather seats and a broken red barbecue lay rusting in its front yard.

It was about a rare man who 'stooped and picked up a fair-coined soul that lay rusting in a pool of tears.'

Both sounds became insignificant when I heard one of those things trip over an old bumper that lay rusting on the bridge.