Kuid tema silmanägemine oli halb, siis läbis ta füüsilise testi silmakaardi meelde jättes. Enne Prantsusmaale minekut saadeti nende väesalk treenima Fort Silli Oklahomasse. Ta töötas laagri sööklas ja kirjutas sõduritele ajalehte. Ft. Sillis aitas tal sööklat juhtida tema juudist sõber Seersant Edward Jacobson, kes töötas Kansases Panga tellerina. Teine mees, keda ta Fort Sillis kohtas ja, kes teda pärast sõda aitas oli Leitnant James Pendergast, Joseph Pendergasti, Kansase poliitiku nõbu. Truman valiti ohvitseriks ja siis suurtüki komandöriks, suurtüki rügemendis Prantsusmaal. Tema üksus oli Battery D 129, 60. väliarmee , 35. brigaad jalaväe divisjon. Kapten Trumani käe all võitles jalaväe väeosa vapralt turmtule all Vosgesi mägedes ja ei kaotanud lahingus ühtegi sõdurit. Hiljem tõusis Truman Leitnant-Koloneli auastmeni. Dwight David Eisenhower (14. oktoober 1890 28. märts 1969) oli USA sõjaväelane ja poliitik
The attitude towards life was altered. Their unifier was the opposition to the feeble academic art of the time. Vibrant and life-oriented paintings impressed the public and their realism was endowed with the name "The Ashcan School". They revived a protestant mood in art by attacking urban ugliness and breaking from academia. Among the themes are urban life, physical action, manly virtue, human sorrow, solitude, common man and landscapes. Pendergast is considered the first true American modernist. Exemplary artist. Robert Henri (early-C20). He is considered the leader of "The Eight". He preferred older European masters over the moderns like Monet, Cézanne and Renoir. His style has been called "dark Impressionism". His paintings are sharply observant. Subsidiary artists: John Sloan, George Luks, William Glackens, Everett Shinn, Maurice Pendergast, Ernest Lawson, Arthur B. Davies. The Stieglitz Group
The attitude towards life was altered. Their unifier was the opposition to the feeble academic art of the time. Vibrant and life-oriented paintings impressed the public and their realism was endowed with the name "The Ashcan School". They revived a protestant mood in art by attacking urban ugliness and breaking from academia. Among the themes are urban life, physical action, manly virtue, human sorrow, solitude, common man and landscapes. Pendergast is considered the first true American modernist. Exemplary artist. Robert Henri (early-C20). He is considered the leader of "The Eight". He preferred older European masters over the moderns like Monet, Cézanne and Renoir. His style has been called "dark Impressionism". His paintings are sharply observant. Subsidiary artists: John Sloan, George Luks, William Glackens, Everett Shinn, Maurice Pendergast, Ernest Lawson, Arthur B. Davies. The Stieglitz Group