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“Workplace Violence” - Hussein al-Obama.
Recall that Batack Obama preceded his Ft Hood shooting rematks with a ‘shout out’ and for years refused to permit the event to be called ‘terrorism’ instead calling it workplace violence (from a known wolf jihadist terrorist).
2009: KNOWN ISLAMIC TERRORIST Nidal Malik Hassan kills 13 and wounds another 29 soldiers and civilians at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest shooting on a U.S. military installation.
Old Teddy Roosevelt’s boys were no slouches.
Archie served in the Pacific having a ridge named after him in the New Guinea campaign, Roosevelt Ridge.
Due to his wounds from WW1 he could easily have sat out the second war but refused. He petitioned his cousin, FDR, to return him to active duty as the army would need experienced officers.
Between the wars Theodore Jr served in the New York State Assembly/2nd district, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor of Puerto Rico, Governor General of the Philippines as well as Chairman of the Board of American Express and Vice President of Doubleday Books.
Returning to the army Ted served in North Africa and Sicily before being relieved due to “reasons of health” due to his needing a cane. His removal stemmed from a fued between his CO, Major General Terry Allen and Lt General George S Patton.
Assigned to the 4th Infantry Division in England Ted Jr petitioned his CO to allow him to land on Utah beach with the first wave. His reasoning was that subsequent waves landing would need concise information that he would be able to provide.
Brigadier General Roosevelt was not only the ONLY General to land on the first wave at Normandy, he was the oldest man at 56 years old and the only to have a son who also landed that day. His son, Captain Quentin Roosevelt II, landed with the first wave on Omaha beach.
Finding that the landing craft had drifted 1 mile south General Roosevelt redirected the forces so they were attacking the flank and rear of the German line.
He directed traffic, gave orders and greeted each new wave on the beach with the updated plan of battle.
The troops coming ashore figured “if the old man was standing there without a care it couldn’t be too bad”.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr did all that with his old war wounds and a bad heart that he successfully hid from army doctors.
That bad heart would take his life one month later.
George Patton called TR Jr “the bravest man I ever knew”.