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President
Truman in an around-the-world broadcast to the armed forces. April
17, 1945.
Copyright by Harris & Ewing.
Used with permission.
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1. You are listening to
the voice of President Harry S. Truman. What duty was he fulfilling
when he gave this speech?
2. What was the
purpose of his speech?
3. How did President
Truman personalize his comments?
4. What was the
mood or tone of this recording?
5. Read carefully
the text of the quote he used from Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural
Address delivered March 4, 1865.
"With malice
toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right,
as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work
we are in;
to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne
the battle,
and for his widow, and his orphan-to do all which may achieve and cherish
a
just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations."
Why do you think
President Truman used these words to close his speech to the men and
women of the Armed Forces?
