President Truman spoke these words the day after he took office Based on this quotation, Truman was overwhelmed by his "Boys, if you ever pray, pray for me now. I don't know if you fellows ever had a load of hay fall on you, but when they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the st s, and all the planets had fallen on responsibility to oversee the war in its final days. O decision to order atomic bombs dropped on Japan belief that fighting in the Pacific would cost too many lives me." -Harry Truman 1945 O order to invade Normandy in what is known as D- Day​