Weekly History Wrap Up: 03/02/12
March 2, 2012
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Nothing better than a Sectional Basketball Tournament Friday in Indiana. But first, the Weekly History Wrap Up.
If you’re raising a teenage boy like my wife and I, you might be familiar with the video game, Assassin’s Creed. Assassin’s Creed III is making the jump to the Revolutionary War. My son will be amped!
A sad sign of the times, thieves recently stole cannon balls, most likely for their scrap metal value, from a Civil War memorial in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Former World War II POW, captured at the Battle of the Bulge, Matthew Bates, died this week in Pahrump, Nevada at the age of 94.
Vietnam War buddies, separated some 41 years ago, when one was wounded and feared dead, recently reunited in Florida.
The recently released documentary, “Hell and Back Again,” follows Sgt. Nathan Harris and his unit in Afghanistan. Yet, war continues for this wounded Marine upon his return home.
Til Monday, have a historical weekend.