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Harry Truman: You can't understand just how a man feels when somebody else dies for him.

On the recordNovember 5, 1950
You can't understand just how a man feels when somebody else dies for him.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Remarks in Independence at the Liberty Bell Luncheon

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