At the 4th Infantry Division Museum at Fort Carson, Colorado there is a simple display of a fairly plain World War II officer’s uniform on a mannequin with a hand-painted sign nearby that says, “The War Starts Here.” The quote isn’t exactly what was said, but together this exhibit honors a man who had some big shoes to fill.
The display is of Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., the son of President Teddy Roosevelt, the assistant commander of the 4th Infantry Division, who at 56 years of age was the oldest man to take part in the D-Day landings and the only general to land with the
