For Dwight D. Eisenhower, the immediate postwar years were filled with change, new challenges, and frustrations. Throughout this entire period, the American people made it clear that they wanted Ike as their president, but he was yet to be convinced. Each time, as he prepared to retire, he was called back to service by his sense of duty.
". . . Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends. Conceivably a commander may have been professionally superior. He may have given everything of his heart and mind to meet the spiritual and physical needs of his comrades. He may have written a chapter that will glow forever in the pages of military history. Still, even such a man -- if he existed -- would sadly face the facts that his honors cannot hide in his memories the crosses marking the resting places of the dead.
In 2024, the world will mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Join us on June 6, 2024, to commemorate this historic occasion at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene, Kansas.
We're inviting all World War II veterans to join us in our goal to host the largest gathering of World War II veterans in the United States.
Activities include a Meet a World War II Veteran Reception, free Admission to the Eisenhower Presidential Museum, speakers, a remembrance ceremony, military re-enactors, hands-on education programs, and more.
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It was mid-September 1915, when Second Lieutenant Dwight D. Eisenhower left Abilene to join the 19th Infantry at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. In the next three and one-half years, he would serve at eight different military posts, marry, become a father, and experience the Great War from stateside.
