No icon for the Hard Drive on my desktop, new MacBook, i7

Brand new MacBook, Core i7...
Right out of the box, there's no HD icon on my desktop(!) I did a clean reinstall & permission repair, but it's still not there. Is there something in System Preferences that I'm not finding?
Suggestions?

Jim,
Go to Finder, Preferences, General, select what you want on your desktop.
Regards,
Roger

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