 | Heywood Broun - 1918 - 364 pages
...he had been buried with full military honors. Colonel Roosevelt made a brief statement: "Quentin's mother and I are very glad that he got to the front,...stuff there was in him before his fate befell him." The news of his death arrived just a few weeks after the news that he had downed his first German plane.... | |
 | 1919 - 824 pages
...sorrowing that he could not personally be on the western battlefront, dauntlessly gave answer: "Quentin's mother and I are very glad that he got to the Front...stuff there was in him before his fate befell him" Underwood THE HOME AT OYSTER BAY AND AEROPLANES WHICH DROPPED WREATHS OF MOURNING The story of Roosevelt's... | |
 | Ferdinand Cowle Iglehart - 1919 - 466 pages
...to the world which will be read centuries from now as a specimen of the highest heroism: Quentin's mother and I are very glad that he got to the front...some service to his country and to show the stuff that was in him before his fate befell him. In accordance with a plan of the War Department to bring... | |
 | Daniel Henderson - 1919 - 300 pages
...statement Colonel Roosevelt made concerning Quentin's death was in every way typical of the man: "Quentin's mother and I are very glad that he got to the front...a chance to render some service to his country and show the stuff that was in him before his fate befell him." Quentin lies buried in France. There his... | |
 | Daniel Henderson - 1919 - 300 pages
...statement Colonel Roosevelt made concerning Quentin's death was in every way typical of the man: "Quentin's mother and I are very glad that he got to the front...a chance to render some service to his country and show the stuff that was in him before his fate befell him." Quentin lies buried in France. There his... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1920 - 438 pages
...against the saddest of tidings: "Quentin's mother and I are very glad he got to the front and had the chance to render some service to his country, and...stuff there was in him before his fate befell him." Quentin Roosevelt was not yet twenty-one. He was born in Washington, November 19, 243 1897, while his... | |
 | Sarah Emma Simons, Clem Irwin Orr, Mary Ella Given - 1920 - 410 pages
...his life for his country. When Colonel Roosevelt heard of his son's heroic death, he said, "Quentin's mother and I are very glad that he got to the front and had the chance to render some service to his country and to show the stuff there was in him before his... | |
 | Edgar Lee Masters - 1927 - 368 pages
...an epitaph for the boy's tomb! 'Quentin's mother and I are very glad he got to the front and had the chance to render some service to his country, and to show the stuff that was in him before his fate befell him.' Here is an instance where love of country and liberty... | |
 | Peter Collier - 1995 - 548 pages
...ultimately found their way back to Sagamore Hill. TR gave out a simple statement to the press: "Quentin's mother and I are very glad that he got to the front...chance to render some service- to his country and show the stuff that was in him before his fate befell him." Before this he had taken Flora Whitney... | |
 | John Downing Weaver - 1997 - 308 pages
...enemy airplanes about ten miles inside the German lines in the Chateau-Thierry sector." "Quentin's mother and I are very glad that he got to the front...country, and to show the stuff there was in him before fate befell him," the Colonel wrote in his statement to the press.1' The story was confirmed July 2... | |
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Quentin's mother and I are very glad that he got to the front and had a chance to render some service to his country and to show the stuff there was in him before his fate befell him. 
