Harry S. Truman - Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind - Tuscambia, AL USA - Etched in Stone on Waymarking.com

"...In your hands rests our future..."
Harry S. Truman

This Harry S. Truman quote is on the side of a sculpture titled Young Teacher. The sculpture shows a blind student reading a book in braille with one hand and signing the word "future" with her other hand. The sculpture (and quote) are in front of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind in Tuscambia.


About Harry S. Truman (from wikipedia):

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953), taking the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. A World War I veteran, he assumed the presidency during the waning months of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War. He is known for implementing the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe, for the establishment of the Truman Doctrine and NATO against Soviet and Chinese Communism, and for intervening in the Korean War. In domestic affairs, he was a moderate Democrat whose liberal proposals were a continuation of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, but the conservative-dominated Congress blocked most of them. He used the veto power 180 times, more than any president since and saw 12 overridden by Congress; only Grover Cleveland and Franklin D. Roosevelt used the veto so often and only Gerald Ford and Andrew Johnson saw so many veto overrides.[2] He is the only world leader to have used nuclear weapons in war. He desegregated the U.S. Armed Forces, supported a newly independent Israel and was a founder of the United Nations.

Address: Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind 512 N. Main St. Tuscambia, AL 35674 Website: [Web Link]

Visit Instructions:
Please include the following with your submission of a visit:

1. Photograph as a proof of your visit.
2. Short narrative. Tell of your visit, share something new, edit the waymark with additional quotes found a the location, add new visiting hours or anything that would be nice to know when visiting the location.
3. Finally, please add a visit if you go to the area and you find the building, memorial, memorial or structure has been removed. Please submit an edit to the waymark adding the words {Historic/Removed} at the end. Also, edit the short description to annotate the reason it was removed for the value to other visitors.

Recent Visits/Logs:

There are no logs for this waymark yet.