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Honoring Cold War Heros
Honoring Cold War Heroes I have chosen to write about President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Winston Churchill. As a 15 year old living now in 2013, the heroes of the Cold War were unfamiliar to me so I was just not going to really do this assignment, but then my grandfather came for a weekend visit. I happened to have my World History textbook open on the dining room table and my grandpa pulled it over to him and began to speak about growing up and living most of his life during the cold war. I asked him if he knew who the heroes of the cold war were. He answered that he knew of many and mentioned Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, Secretary of State Dulles, Harry S. Truman and a few others. But the two who he believed were the biggest heroes were Dwight D. Eisenhower and Winston Churchill. When I asked him why he said that it was because of the inspirational speeches these men gave and their policy of peace in a world where the atomic bomb existed and many world leaders were pressuring us to use them again.

I liked learning about Dwight D. Eisenhower. He was born was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, to David Jacob Eisenhower and Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower. Dwight was the third of his parents’ seven sons. When he was 6 years old he lost his 3 year old brother to diphtheria. That sucked for him. His family was poor. His father cleaned trains for a living. I read on Wikipedia that he had a brother who was a year younger than him named Edgar, and they were really close. After Dwight graduated from high school in 1909, he went to work to save money to pay for his brother’s college education. They made a deal that Dwight would work and pay for the first 2 years of Edgar’s education and then the little brother would take a break from school and he would go to work and help support Dwight while he went to school. Then they would switch again until they both had the education they wanted. What a good brother he was. After the first two
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