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TIL Quentin Roosevelt, son of Theodore Roosevelt, is the only WW1 casualty in the Normandy American cemetery. He is buried next to his brother who died of a heart attack a month after Dday where his actions earned him the Medal of Honor. Quentin is the only child of a president to die in combat

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