Weekly History Wrap Up: 01/13/12
January 13, 2012
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A very snowy, chilly Friday morning here in the Midwest, and time for the Weekly History Wrap Up.
The H.L. Hunley, the Confederate combat submarine credited with sinking the Union warship, Housatonic, has been finally unveiled in Charleston, South Carolina.
One columnist pays tribute to his father, Wilfred R. “Will” Seiple, a member of the World War II Flying Tigers.
Soldiers take part in winter drills along the DMZ between North and South Korea.
The Vietnam War’s “Daily Mail Orphans” still feel the effects some 35 years later.
And finally, former Vietnam War correspondent and Playboy magazine editor, David Butler, has died of throat cancer at the age of 70.
Til Monday, have a historical weekend.