Two Sandies make year-end headlines, as an autumn hurricane by that name devastates parts of New York and New Jersey, and a gunman attacks Sandy Hook Elementary School staff and students in Connecticut • The Taliban, threatened by a 14-year old schoolgirl, fail in their attempt to assassinate her • The world survives the end of the Mayan calendar • I touch the face of a battleship and the belly of a dolphin, on an anniversary return trip to Hawaii
History As I've Seen It 