Former Commander-in-Chief Harry S. Truman Was A Very Interesting And Influential

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Term Paper Title	Former Commander-in-Chief Harry S. Truman Was A Very Interesting And Influential
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     Former Commander-in-Chief Harry S. Truman was a very interesting and influential man
in our history.  He was raised in Independence, Missouri, near Kansas City.  His parents were
farmers.  Farmers are really down-to-earth, pragmatic, and simple people.  As a result, Truman
ended up having all of those qualities stamped in him.
     His personality changed throughout the years of his life and it reflected exactly what was
going on with him in his life at those times.  He was always very simple about everything, just like
any farmer would be.  In farming, unlike business, there are not complexities, either crops grow,
or they don't.  In business, you go into all sorts of different problems with all sorts of different
solutions to them and you can spend hours upon hours philosophizing them.
     Truman was always honest and candid.  He always took full responsibility for his actions,
good or bad.  Those qualities, he adopted from his parents, and community in his youth.
     If there is one thing about farmers that is most bluntly apparent, it is that they are poor.
Farmers work harder than most people and yet, still are poorer.  The Truman family was a very
poor one.  In fact, Truman was the poorest man to become President of the United States in the
Twentieth Century.
     He was poor, and he did have a poor education with no college, but he also loved to read.
He read anything you'd put in front of him.  By the time he reached age 15 he had read every
book in the Independence Library.
     His favorite thing to read about though, was history.  He loved history.  One thing that he
discovered on his own was that history comes and goes in cycles.  He was quoted for saying, "All
readers aren't leaders, but all leaders are readers."
     In 1905, Truman began a career with the Army National Guard as a private in Field
Artillery and he was honorably discharged in 1911.
     In 1915, he married "Bess."  In his heart though, he wasn't conformed.  He wanted
something else out of life.  He didn't want to just farm all his life.  He got his break at the start of
World War I.
     When the United States entered the first World War, he returned to the Missouri Guard.
In those days, the people elected their leaders in volunteer units and he got elected to a Field
Artillery first lieutenant.  His unit was federalized and he arrived in France the next year.
     Truman got promoted to Captain very soon and commanded a firing battery during the St.
Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Offensives.  During that time, ...

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