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TIL when Quentin Roosevelt was shot down over France in WW1 the Germans buried him with military honors “because he was a gallant aviator, who died fighting bravely against odds and because he was the son of Colonel Teddy Roosevelt whom they esteemed as one of the greatest Americans”

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