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Found in a box of old letters in Harry Truman's papers is this elegant little word weapon from parents who lost their child to Truman's imperial war in Korea:
Mr. Truman
As you have been directly responsible for the loss of our son's life in Korea, you might just as well keep this emblem on display in your trophy room, as a memory of one of your historic deeds.
Our major regret at this time is that your daughter was not there to receive the same treatment as our son received in Korea.
Harry Truman Pwned
Yes - it says a great deal about him that he kept it. I would bet quite a bit that Mr. Truman answered that letter. He served in the trenches in World War I. He wrote condolence letters to the families of men in his unit who were killed.
Mr. Truman did more than run a war from an office. He had been on the business end of it.
And the populations of Nanking, Singapore, Manila, etc., wrote to the aggrieved Japanese to express their condolences.