European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                \ army Ike in his trailer with Winston Churchill in november 1944. V la w by amp a a i w00 v up Ike and Mamie at the 1947 Orange bowl game in Miami. The Eisenhower after their wedding in Denver in 1916. Map i Mitt Silt \ Jpg-., r r i v a i so my ene kan., was Ike Eisenhower Circle. Also on pm managed to keep Stony faced when an upper Pussman wearing White gloves rubbed them Over the pin his room looking for a speck of dust. Too often pese occasions a wide Grin would split his face. He razed the importance of discipline but he thought was carrying spit and polish too  in lettered in baseball and was a hard hitter in m until he injured his knee which was agonizingly m when he jumped from a horse putting him off paying Fields for keeps. If Ike Wasny to exactly spit and. A was learning through his avocation hiking to i terrain with a soldiers Eye and with his Soldier s e qualified As a Sharpshooter amassing the same As a fellow Cadet named Omar Bradley whom people thought had a shot at being a general Erni Cally Ike placed 61st in his graduating class of Leru conduct. He stood at 125th, in the lowest let Jovany of the demerits he got were infractions Lepich one a 9ht David Eisenhower himself a glint Honor syst Rou As to a a himself to task under Perak in class of resplendent with future iss Tho inc us n9 Bradley that would be called Quot the Lith ars Fel  but if anyone had predicted that e so e of the passable yet hardly distinguished Cadet of the West Point years lurked the organizational brain that would someday oversee and coordinate the strategy that helped save the Western world he might have been suspected of smoking Loco Weed. Even after graduating Ike almost did no to make it. Because of the bum knee the medical Board voted to turn Down his commission then decided to reconsider Quot in the interest of the  the army did no to want to waste a second lieutenants bars on someone who might retire Early but because of the Cadet s perceived Quot other assets Quot decided to take a Chance. Now Ike had second thoughts. The would be lieutenant wanted infantry wrote Morin. Advised he might get posted to coastal artillery Ike a not enthralled a refused. He even fancied going off to Argentina to work in ranching. Then the army made its decision on one grinning Cadet seemingly innocuous at the time that helped define history. There would be another lieutenant of infantry with a stipulation a he must never apply for duty on horses. Slow to Rise Ike a Star remained hidden for a Long time in the shuffle of the peacetime military. Indeed his Lone tactical Victory of the Early years came when he won the hand of Mamie Geneva Doud whom he met at a Post dance and married in 1916. But the glory of Victory in Battle would have to wait. When the United states entered world War i the Young army president Truman decorates Ike with the distinguished service medal on his return from Europe in june 1945. Soldier dreamed of charging Forth on the battlefields of Europe. The desire was there but the paperwork was t. While others marched to the sound of guns on the Western front it seemed that Fate had designed another role for the Soldier who liked to sign his name "d.d. Eisenhower Quot until the army told him he  get paid without full signature. . Spent the War As a Captain commanding a tank training school in Gettysburg a. Despite his frustration the increasingly serious Ike who often spent his Leisure time studying the campaigns of great commanders and the ways of War won his first distinguished service medal for his work with those new clanking monsters of weaponry. A a a that developing seriousness and the Depths of concentration he could summon once fixed to a task showed itself again in 1926 when he was graduated first in in his class from the army s command and general staff school. But his first break came in 1933 when he was appointed aide to Gen. Douglas Macarthur then army chief of staff. Two years later maj. Eisenhower followed Macarthur to the Philippines where he stayed until 1939. Then with War rumbles in Europe becoming volcanic he was called Back to the United states. The second break in Ike a career came in 1941. His continued on Page 16 3. 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 15