It is a brutally cold day here. This morning I had the chance to watch the film below. It was produced by Michael Shipman for the American Battle Monuments Commission and tells the story of a young doughboy killed during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive on 11 November 1918, the last day of the war. The film showed at last year’s GI Film Festival over Memorial Day Weekend. Carve out 25 minutes this Presidents Day Weekend to watch the poignant documentary.
The Strawfoot 
My great-uncle Leo was killed France in August, three months before the Armistice. His unit went on to cut off communications between Germany and Belgium.
Margaret, I’m glad you’ve kept up the history of your great-uncle. These are important stories to preserve.
BTW, I’m about 1/3 of the way through the Dalton biography of TR and am enjoying it a great deal.
Oh my, isn’t it a wonderful work! I have been privileged to talk to Kathleen in person twice, once at the Houghton Library and again at the TRA annual meeting last year.
I’m glad you met her. Hopefully she will be at the TRA conference in Oyster Bay this fall. I have read several of her journal articles and now the biography and have to say I think she gets to the essence of Roosevelt better than most biographers.
I have been doing so many other things but, btw, the Roosevelt Sr. book is slowly making progress. I’m going to write a few hundred words today.
PS I’ve got my grandfather’s letters from the first World War typed. Would you like me to send you a copy?
If it is not too much trouble I would very much like that.
Can you message or email me an address I could snail mail it to?