‘We’ll start the war from right here!’

Theodore Roosevelt Jr., who had been shot in the leg and gassed nearly to blindness in World War I, was not going to let World War II go by without his direct involvement. First wave. D-Day. He was 56 and walked with a cane when his Higgins Boat reached Utah Beach on June 6, 1944. Eldest son of the 26th U.S. president, Roosevelt Jr. famously said The American Legion could never have been founded…