By Eric Adler, The Kansas City Star (TNS)

ABILENE, Kan. — In the small town of Abilene, Kansas — population, 7,000 — there is no lack of signs of devotion in this Republican community to President Donald J. Trump.

They can be found in the countless Trump flags that wave from front porches, on car and truck bumper stickers, and in the 2024 voting rolls that show that 76.7% of Dickinson County, where Abilene is the county seat, voted for the president.

But there is also a Republican president who called Abilene his boyhood home and is even more dear to this community.

Dwight D. Eisenhower .

Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, during World War II was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe and led the troops who delivered the continent from

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