June 28  This Day in History   Jun 28, 1919:  Harry S. Truman
marries Bess Wallace  On this day in 1919, future President
Harry S. Truman marries his longtime Missourian sweetheart,
Bess. When the two met, Truman told a friend that she had the
"most beautiful golden curls and blue eyes" and that she was the
"one girl in the world" for him.  Although they had known each
other since the fifth grade, Harry and Bess did not marry until
their mid-30s. The very practical Truman did not want to marry
until he could make a decent living, so it took many years and a
stint in the military before Truman proposed.  The Trumans'
relationship and his political beliefs are well-documented in
the many letters Harry wrote to Bess. For example, six months
before their wedding, he wrote from the front in World War I in
his inimitable no-nonsense manner: "We'll stay there until
Woodie [Woodrow Wilson] gets his pet peace plans refused or
okayed?–I don't give a whoop whether there's a League of Nations
or whether Russia has a Red