D-DAY HERO TEDDY ROOSEVELT, JR., LAID TO REST
Sainte-Mère-Église, Normandy, France • July 14, 1944 On this date, Bastille Day in France, the U.S. Army laid to rest Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., at the U.S. cemetery in Sainte-Mère-Église a few miles/kilometers west of Utah Beach in Normandy. The 56‑year-old Roosevelt had died of a heart attack less than 2 days before at Méautis, a village…