My work took me to some ammunition plants back in the 80s. I think I'd have a hard time getting use to working in a building that is surrounded by a 20 ft high berm to keep the blast in!
My grandmother and her sister worked in a munitions plant during WW2, as I know a lot of other daughters, sisters, and wives did then, but I know what you're saying. A manufacturing facility I've spent a lot of time in had an event resulting in several fatalities just a couple years before I started doing work there, and it was sobering every time I walked by the empty spot on the property where once had stood an operating unit.
