In reply to Ojala:
See, I KNEW I liked her!
In reply to Ojala:
See, I KNEW I liked her!
I haven't been watching this as I was kind of upset by The History Channel rewriting history a bit the last go around.....
aircooled wrote: I like Teddy's comment right after Franklin gets married (to his distant cousin with the same last name, daughter of Teddy's brother): "Way to keep the family name in the family Franklin" (Teddy was quite a personality apparently)
FTFY
As mentioned, TR's youngest son, Quentin, was KIA in WWI. There's speculation that he had his father's poor eyesight, and that could have contributed to his getting shot down.
TR had pushed extremely hard for the US to enter WW1 and probably felt a great deal of guilt over his son's death.
kazoospec wrote: Hmm . . . missed this one. I guess I've been watching too much baseball and not enough A & E lately. Semi-related: He apparently passed on a rather stout constitution to his son, as well:Just finished reading about him in "The Guns At Last Light" - highly recommended, BTW.
From Wiki...
General Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic action he had ever seen in combat, and he replied, "Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach."
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