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Thread #129350   Message #2903183
Posted By: SINSULL
09-May-10 - 02:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: Happy Birthday Harry Truman (born 8 May 1884)
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Harry Truman (born 8 May 1884)
Too young to remember Truman. But I remember being shocked at a news bit. It would have been early 50s. He was walking on a street and a man started shouting and spitting at him while security people tried to get between them. We were taught that our leaders were specail men to be honored and respected. I was a child and could not understand such a transgression.
Later I learned that Truman ordered the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Now I still find it ironic that the US is always going on about which countries can't be trusted with nuclear weapons when we were the only ones to ever use them.