D-Day symbol of American-French friendship under strain
By , RAF CASERT
Published May 31, 2019
Associated Press
In this Wednesday, May 1, 2019 photo, the headstone of World War II U.S. Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr is photographed at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France. President Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron will next week honor the dwindling number of veterans of the D-Day landing that turned World War II amid plenty of signs the bonds of friendship are under strain. The United States has had a special bond with France throughout its history and especially during two world wars over the past century when even future presidents and sons of presidents risked their lives for the freedom of a friendly nation. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Side by side the presidential sons lie, separated by two world wars, united in their fervor for the freedom of France.
Quentin Roosevelt was a daredevil pilot shot by Germans close to Champagne country during World War I. His brother, Theodore Jr., was the only general in the first wave of D-Day attacks that turned World War II for good 75 years ago in Normandy. He died in France just weeks later.
Despite his despair at just having lost Quentin, former U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt wrote that he knew of "nothing finer in our history than the way our young men have eagerly and gladly gone to France to fight for a high ideal."
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