[VOA]

In 1918, Teddy Roosevelt's son Quentin (who had left Harvard during his sophomore
year to serve in World War I) was shot out of the sky in one of aerial warfare's
early dogfights. German propagandists took photos of his maimed body amidst the
plane wreckage and, hoping to dampen American morale, sent one to Mrs. Roosevelt.

Rather than letting herself be cowed, however, she insisted the picture be
displayed over a mantel, as an emblem of her family's sturdiness and their pride
in sacrifice for a high cause.

Now there's something I never heard in American History class.
Even in conservative Oklahoma.
And that was a few decades ago, before the National Education Association
got it's jihad against basic education going at full speed.

The other sad question after reading this is...
What happenened to the men of Harvard since then?
Have they all gone metrosexual?

[Remole]

The Air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio has an exhibit on the early years of air combat. And one panel shows photographs of the make-shift grave of QR that local Germans created, with a cross made out of large sticks. Very moving. There is also a postcard--maybe the one sent to Mrs. R--of the wreakage of the plane, with the title, "Amer. Flieger Roosevelt."