"IT WILL SEEM STRANGE NO LONGER TO HEAR HIS FAMILIAR VOICE"

STARS & STRIPES PAYS TRIBUTE TO TEDDY ROOSEVELT

France (JFK+50) On January 10, 1919, The Stars and Stripes published a tribute to Theodore Roosevelt* on its top front page.  The tribute, which included an illustration of the late 26th POTUS, read...

"Everywhere on earth American flags are flying at half mast, for TR is dead.  The returning soldiers will find...our generation has lost a great companion.  It will seem strange no longer to hear his familiar voice, no longer see the light from his window shining across America.

His four sons were of us.  Of all the banners won in a long and ardent life, that was the proudest--that four-starred flag which flew outside the house at Oyster Bay."

All of TR's sons served in World War I: Quentin (1897-1918) killed in the war,  Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887-1994), Archie (1894-1979) & Kermit (1889-1943).  Archie and Kermit served in both world wars & Archie was the only American soldier to have been declared totally disabled in two wars.

*Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) was born in NY City and graduated from Harvard.  He served as Asst. Sec of the Navy, Governor of NY, Vice-President and President of the United States.   During the Spanish-American War he was a Colonel in the Volunteer Cavalry known as the Rough Riders.

TR died on January 6, 1919 at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, New York.

SOURCES

The Stars and Stripes, France, January 10, 1919, www.wdl.org/

"Theodore Roosevelt's Sons in World War I," from "The Yanks Are Coming! A Military History of the United States in World War I," by H.W. Crocker III.

www.historyonthenet.com/

Grave of Theodore Roosevelt

Youngs Memorial Cemetery

Oyster Bay, NY

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English Wikipedia