Weekly History Wrap-Up: 07/08/11.

A fabulous Friday to all our followers.  Time for the Weekly History Wrap-Up.

Guam wants reparations for Japanese occupation during World War II.  The House will soon consider the issue … again.

Nine Germans, most now in their 90s, were convicted this week in an Italian court of killing civilians during World War II.

Old Bullion, the Civil War-era cannon that sets on the lawn of the Elkhart County courthouse in Indiana is scheduled for a little spit-n-polish.

Documentary filmmaker, Ken Burns, is now in the historical tours business.

Kim Phuc, the subject of one of the most iconic photographs from the Vietnam War, was a guest speaker at EMU in Harrisonburg, VA this week.

Vietnam Veterans are finding closure in returning to where “it” all took place.

And lets finish things off with a severed head.  A skull was found in BBC correspondent, David Attenborough’s garden, bringing an 1879 murder mystery to conclusion.  Stranger than fiction?  You bet.

Til Monday, have a historical weekend.

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