More than 130,000 Allied troops landed at Normandy as part of D-Day, but only one of them was the son of a former U.S. President: Theodore Roosevelt Jr., who also held the distinction of being the oldest soldier to deploy. He was born on September 13, 1887, making the brigadier general 56 years old when he asked to land with the first wave. After two verbal requests were denied, Roosevelt submitted a written petition, in which he wrote, “I personally know both officers and men of these advance units and believe that it will steady them to know that I am with them.”
High command finally relented, and Roosevelt landed on Utah Beach equipped with his walking cane and service pistol on June 6, 1944. Later, soldiers from his unit indeed credited his “calm and humorous demeanor” with helping them push through. Roosevelt was already a decorated veteran at this point, having served with distinction in World War I, but his military career was cut short when he suffered a fatal heart attack barely a month after D-Day.
General George Patton hailed him as one of the bravest men he ever knew, and Roosevelt received a posthumous Medal of Honor on September 21, 1944. His son Quentin Roosevelt II stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, making them the only father-son duo to take part in the Normandy landings. This was a topic on a history site headlines today, so I though I would paste it here.
At the same time:I just finished the book
Lindbergh vs Roosevelt.
Teddy's relatives apparently were bottom of the bowl genes.
F. Roosevelt makes Biden look like an incompetent amateur at trying to destroy the U.S. Constitution.
I cannot even give a good abstract here of how Roosevelt hated and used, FULLY, his power to destroy Lindbergh and Conservatives. (including persons in his own party, and there were some , who did not do as he said).
Much of what the Left has been done to Trump is a redo, same crap , different pile, of what Roosevelt did to Lindbergh, the country, and those who backed Lindbergh.
Even though we got much fuller history when I was in high school, we did not know how much of a scum bag the British were before WW II trying to force the U.S. into WW II, with Roosevelt's full help.
Hitler did not want to go to war with the U.S. and did not do so even though Roosevelt was actually attacking German submariines hoping that would provoke Hitler to declare war against the U.S.
It is still a mystery as to why Hitler declared war against the U.S. after Japan attacked , as had he not, Roosevelt did not have the power to go to war against Germany.
The vast majority of U.S. citizens , were fully against sending soldiers to war against Germany.
Hitler had been asking Japan to attack Russia, not the U.S., which would have given Russia a two front war.
Wendell Willkie, who ran against Roosevelt for his third term, was actually a Democrat who had converted to a Rep. only months before the election.
The book does not say how he managed to snooker the Rep. Party, but his being a Rep. was a total scam and he backed every thing Roosevelt stood for, including trying to force the U.S. into WW II.
The very first RINO.
I recommend reading the book -- a LOT of fine print details, kind of like the begot, begot , parts of the Bible but it spells out fully who were Satan's (Roosevelt) minions and who fought them.
It lists in detail, how Roosevelt made the Depression worse, not better, and that he wanted into WW II, long before the Japanese attacked, as he knew that would break the U.S out of the depression and make him look better.
Lindbergh being said to be anti-semitic and favouring Nazis, is TOTALLY the creation of Roosevelt and the parts of the major press that backed Roosevelt regardless of knowing he was lying.
I may start reading more books about real people and the real world.
