This 1963 photo from the American military cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, amply underscores the truth of that...
Poignant, to say the least.
Although Eisenhower was a great General in WWII his true legacy is when he led our nation in the most dangerous of times after WWII. In those times the United States and the USSR were on a hair trigger of intercontinetal thermonuclear war.
Nothing happened during his presidency. That is his legacy. Eishenhower loathed and despised war. Eisenhower did understand what war is and what is today. Unfortunately the later occupents of his legacy did not understand it or rejected it. Nixon, JFK, Bush 1 and Bush 2 did understand this.
President Carter did not understand because he was and is a fool. President Obama is neither a fool nor a patriot.
This 1963 photo from the American military cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, amply underscores the truth of that...
Poignant, to say the least.
Eisenhower understood war. He loathed violence for its own sake, but knew how and when to apply force. If Ike had been President after 1960, there would have been no dictatorship in Cuba,nor missle crisis no war in Southeast Asia.