D-Day Commemoration Event Set for June

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.

The Great War Years

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.

Boyhood

Eisenhower's formative years

Dwight D. Eisenhower’s formative years were spent in the small town of Abilene, Kansas, and were among the most important of his life. For it was in Abilene that the boy who would grow up to become General of the Army and the thirty-fourth President of the United States developed the skills and first displayed the character that would see him and the nation through some of the most perilous times the world has ever known.

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