quentin roosevelt was the youngest of teddy roosevelt's sons. teddy roosevelt was a passionate supporter of world war i and encouraged his voice to fight at the front. kermit and theodore as well. ofntin is shot down in july 1918. we have a letter from roger kipling who lost his own boy in france in 1915, consoling teddy roosevelt about the loss. kipling doesn't want to say he's dead, but kipling knows he is. nonetheless i believe you now and i know how hard this is. as it turns out, quentin had been shot down. by can see in the scrapbook eleanor butler roosevelt that this captures the scene. many american soldiers would go to this and take pictures. there are other groups of soldiers around it because quentin roosevelt, when he died, it was famous. it was front-page news across the nation because teddy roosevelt lost his son in a very painful way. it's indicative of two things. this war touched all americans whether you were early or working-class american. it touched the equally -- whether it touched equally as a -- is a longer conversation. i

quentin roosevelt, when he died, he was famous. he made front-page news. teddy roosevelt lost his son. i think it's indicative of two things. one, this war touched all americans, whether you were elite or working-class, whether it touched you equally is a larger conversation, but it touched you. the second thing, it demonstrates the very fraught reality of how many millions of people died at the front. quentin roosevelt is simply one of a larger group of people, and his burial is demonstrative also of this idea of memorializing the war in some way, the contributions they made. >> this language of attack, of harm, of damage, that by expressing an opinion that people don't like, you have inflicted an injury -- i found frightening, is the truth be told, and quite emblematic of the way the left is responding to any sort of dissent, especially one that politics,n identity which of course is everywhere and has infected everything. announcer: university of pennsylvania law school professor amy wax on the limits of free expression on college campuses in the united

roosevelt about the loss. he issn't want to say dead, but you can tell in the letter that he knows he is. out, quentin been shot down. what is interesting, in light of the fact that the military was working through its process and policies in world war i, roosevelt rights march again, same year, in the fall, and says look, i know policy is to bring back all the boys who have fallen at the front, bring them back to the states. my wife and i believe that where the tree falls, the tree shall lay. we want to bury quentin overseas in france where he died. marge acknowledges this, and in marchense, -- acknowledges this, and in some sense, makes an effort to a common eight families who did not want to bring their home -- their son's for whatever reason. families whodate did not want to bring their sons home for whatever reason. we have other pictures of groups because when he died, it was front-page news across the nation, because teddy roosevelt had lost his son. it was indicative of a few things. this war touched all americans whether you were elite or a poor african-american. the second thing is, it demon

quentin roosevelt was one of a larger group of people, and his burial is demonstrative of the idea oflizing the war in some way. the memorialization through graveyards. this gets at that larger issue. with that in mind, the americans fight in a number of capacities. majorr, there are three battles we highlighted in the section. the first was bella wood. that was not an american led offensive. but at that time, the worst day in marine history for casualties to that point. what you have here is an account by joel t boone, a doctor assigned to the marines. he recounts the jaws of death and the horrors they encountered. he himself later won a congressional medal of honor for his work of suturing 16 -- suturing injured soldiers. here is a picture of the station they established. at some point, he talks about how the men came rushing in and the best they could do was give them a cup of coffee. remember, they were only getting ancillary medical attention in this initial phase, and then they were shipped to a hospital somewhere else. and that took time. in vietnam, as awful as that was, you g

quentin roosevelt was one of a larger group of people, and his burial is demonstrative of the idea ofializing the war in some way. and the contributions made, particularly for european powers. the memorialization through graveyards is a powerful thing that you can go and see today. for americans, it is different because we were so far away. but it gets at that larger issue. with that in mind, the americans fight in a number of capacities. however, there are three major battles we highlighted in the section. the first being bella wood. that was not an american led offensive. but at that time it was the worst day in marine history for casualties to that point. what you have here is an account from claude hammel, a map from james harbor, who was there, and an account by joel t boone, a doctor assigned to the marines. joel recounts the jaws of death and the horrors they encountered. he himself later won a congressional medal of honor for his work of suturing injured soldiers. here is a picture of the station they established. and at some point in his diaries , he talks about how the men c

something and you had your conversation and theodore roosevelt was very likely to say would you like to come up and have lunch with mrsn and me. quentin was asking about the dog. so you go up and have lunch with the president and you have a nice warm feeling about the as well. wilson cannot bring himself to do things like that. but this intense praise and thacoem he got really wanted to know what was at the bottom of that so i kept reading and the thing that popped t the service fas another portrait painter which was another quality i am sure but it was a deep sense of moral responsibility as a political leader. that is how i came to write about and put the focus on his preoccupation with morality. some people admire and critics have sought as an arrogance because well, you will see what happens to him as we go along here. it is not that i have this biographer that notices my already and many people have noticed it but they attributed it to the fact that his father was a minister. his father was a presbyterian minister and they were hanging from every branch in his symmetry. the thought was he had grown up with this strict religious u