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Harry Truman: “There was not a single man there who did not feel that he was making the proper sacrifice for his country.”

On the recordOctober 12, 1950
There was not a single man there who did not feel that he was making the proper sacrifice for his country.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Pearl Harbor at the Commissioned Officers Mess.

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