The U.S. Navy has named its next destroyer after a World War II hero, Petty Officer Charles Jackson French, known as the "Human Tugboat" for his effor.
Editor s note: This column is being published in honor of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, Dec. 7, by a local writer whose father fought in World War II s Pacific Theater.
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