Truman End Game Remembered: Local Hero Or War Criminal?!?!

Every now and then we like to throw this one out there and this time around it seems more relevant given that nuclear devastation is an increasingly likely scenario going forward. 

Meanwhile . . . 

Let's not forget that there are quite a few people out there who constantly spit on Truman's legacy as a leader. Exampel . . . 

"Truman’s unconditional surrender demand is not why his action constituted a war crime. This bombings constituted war crimes because they targeted non-combatants, including children, women, and seniors with death as a way to bring about an unconditional surrender of the Japanese government.

"It has long been considered a rule of warfare that armies fight armies in war. They don’t target non-combatants. The intentional killing of non-combatants is considered a war crime."

A nicer local angle . . . 

More than 75,000 people came from far and wide to pay their respects to the small-town boy from Missouri, who made it to the highest office in the land. President Nixon and former President Lyndon B. Johnson came to see the veteran of World War I, who ended World War II with the dropping of the atomic bomb.

Truman was the author of the Marshall Plan, creator of the United Nations and NATO. He desegregated the U.S. Armed Forces, recognized Israel as an independent nation and then entered the Korean conflict in 1950.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Remembering President Truman on 50th anniversary of his death

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Monday marks 50 years since President Harry S. Truman took his last breath at a hospital in Missouri. The Truman family chose to hold his funeral at the Truman Library, where he spent most of his time after he left the White House in 1953.