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When Harry Truman found out that Franklin Roosevelt passed away he reports that “Boys, if you ever pray, pray for me now. Truman didn’t want it to be president. Through Roosevelt war strategy and secrets Truman stepped in made the decisions that led the U.S. to war with Japan by dropping the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki that saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of U.S. soldiers and was the only way to end the war quickly. Harry Truman was born May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri. Truman was the President of the United States for not 8 years after Franklin Roosevelt passed away. In World War I, he served in combat in France as an artillery officer in the National Guard. After the war, he moved back to Kansas City in which he owned

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