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Old 06-11-2015, 02:59 AM
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Default Re: Lest We Forget...

How Ike wanted to be remembered. He said all would remember him as a President of the United States but few would remember him as a great General of WWII. For this reason, he wanted to be buried in a simple Army casket and wearing his uniform.

http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/a...inal_post.html
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