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to scientists. There are many excellent minds in this country who
cannot find funds enough to carry out experiments. I think we, as
Americans, place too much emphacise on the common man, and not enough
on the uncommon man. The uncommon man is our hope---our future.
If it were not for the uncommon men who have made all our achievments
we would still be living in caves.
Let's give this fellow an education if he wants it. Let's make
him exempt from a herd of humanity; regimentet humanity; He wants to
make something of himself, and of his country. Let's listen to this
fellow, and use our own common sense. A month this fellow spends in the
classroom is worht ten times more to this conntry than a year he
spends marching rank and file.
If the war was still on, I would not hesitate, but would enlist
as soon as I was out of high school. But World War II is mostly over
and so is that type of war, and that type of fighting, says the
atomic bomb
Herbert K. Akioka
Mr H. Truman
President of the United States of America
the White House, Washington, District of Columbia.
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