President Harry Truman in World War I and his role in creating the new State of Israel
Published: 15 May 2025
By Pastor Dewey Moede
via the For God’s Glory Alone Ministries website
Truman
Harry S. Truman in his World War I U.S. Army uniform (inset) and at his desk in the White House when he served as the 33rd President of the United States.
Pastor Dewey Note: Harry Truman is one of my most favorite Presidents! I have visited the Truman library and read so much about Harry. Truman and Lincoln I beleive, had the most difficult decisions ever! Lincoln with the Civil War and standing his ground in freeing of the slaves and saving the union. Truman dropped the atomic bombs on Japan and that ended WW II. Such trying times in America and the world. My dad was a SGT. in the U.S. Marines and on a ship that was headed to invade Japan. It was at that time that Truman ordered the dropping of the atomic bombs. The war ended. By the way, Truman served in WWI, so many Americans have not studied WWI, the war of mustard gas. Truman knew very well that war is hell. Truman stood strong for Israel! Glory! We have had far to few Presidents that have served in the military! It shows! The Germans used Chlorine gas in World War I. Chlorine, phosgene (a choking agent) and mustard gas (which inflicts painful burns on the skin) were among the chemicals used. The results were indiscriminate and often devastating. Nearly 100,000 deaths resulted. Since World War I, chemical weapons have caused more than one million casualties globally.
So many Americans know very little about the history and sacrifices millions have made for the world!
American Minute with Bill Federer
Harry S. Truman in World War I and his role in creating new State of Israel
|
Harry S Truman was born May 8, 1884. His parents had met at the Blue Ridge Baptist Church located on the front yard of the Soloman Young farm next to the Truman farm.
In 1902, at the age of 18, he was baptized at Benton Boulevard Baptist Church.
In a letter to his future wife, Bess Wallace, March 19, 1911 (Papers Relating to Family, Business, and Personal Affairs), Truman wrote:
“I believe in people living what they believe and talking afterwards.”
In 1916, he became a member of Grandview Baptist Church.
In the President Truman’s Secretary’s files, 1945, is his handwritten note:
“I’m a Baptist because I think that sect gives the common man the shortest and most direct approach to God.”
His first job was working as a timekeeper for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway.
In 1905, he worked clerical jobs in downtown Kansas City.
Truman clerked at The Kansas City Star, and the National Bank of Commerce, with a coworker being Arthur Eisenhower, brother of Dwight Eisenhower.
He also met a clothing store clerk named Eddie Jacobson, the son of poor Jewish immigrants from Lithuania, with whom he later went into business with.
At the age of 22, he returned to his family’s Grandview farm, and at age 27 he proposed to Bess Wallace, but she turned him down.
She finally agreed eight years later, and they were married at Trinity Episcopal Church in Independence, Missouri, on June 28, 1919.
Harry Truman enlisted in the Missouri National Guard, though he was almost rejected due to poor eyesight: 20/50 in his right eye and 20/400 in his left.
He only got in because he memorized the eye chart.
When the U.S. entered World War I, over a million soldiers were sent to Europe. Truman was made captain of a field artillery battery in France.
→ Read the entire article on the For God’s Glory Alone Ministries website here:
External Web Site Notice: This page contains information directly presented from an external source. The terms and conditions of this page may not be the same as those of this website. Click here to read the full disclaimer notice for external web sites. Thank you.
