Theodore Roosevelt's great grandson: "Cpt Crozier is a Hero. My great grandfather would agree"

[CousinIT]

By Tweed Roosevelt - can't post excerpt due to paywall:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/opinion/coronavirus-crozier-roosevelt.html

Suffice to day that the great grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, namesake of the ship Cpt Crozier commanded, says his great grandfather would agree, that Captain Crozier is a hero.

(so fuck Trump - who is the main problem in all of this, not the Captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt)

[Laelth]

1. Hear! Hear! n/t

-Laelth

[Iliyah]

2. K & R . . .

Ya know the t-rump administration will try to taint with many lies . . .

That's what they do. t-rump is the worst person ever to occupy the WH. His administration is equal to the worse ever.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Here's more:

Roosevelt was the commander of the Rough Riders in the invasion of Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Once the war was over the soldiers who were still in Cuba were starting to get malaria and yellow fever. Roosevelt wanted them to be sent home but the Secretary of War, Russell Ager, refused. So Roosevelt wrote an open letter and sent it to the newspapers.

The letter, known as the “round robin,” was printed in virtually every newspaper in the country, creating an uproar demanding that the soldiers be brought home immediately. Alger relented, and the troops were sent to quarantine on the end of Long Island, at Montauk Point. Though hundreds of men died of disease in Cuba, Roosevelt’s actions probably saved countless more.

He did, however, pay a price. Alger was furious with him. When Roosevelt’s nomination came up for a Medal of Honor, the secretary shot it down (Roosevelt eventually received the medal, posthumously, in 2001). Of course, Roosevelt came out the winner. Who today remembers Russell Alger?

In this era when so many seem to place expediency over honor, it is heartening that so many others are showing great courage, some even risking their lives. Theodore Roosevelt, in his time, chose the honorable course. Captain Crozier has done the same.

[CousinIT]

5. THANK YOU. Good to be able to see the story.

This is an amazing piece of history and likely at least one reason, if not THE reason that ship was named after TR.

[Sherman A1]

4. K&R

Captain Crozier is indeed a hero

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. This is the Roosevelt letter:

We, the undersigned officers commanding the various brigades, divisions, etc., of the Army of Occupation in Cuba, are of the unanimous opinion that this army should be at once taken out of the island of Cuba and sent to some point on the Northern sea-coast of the United States; that can be done without danger to the people of the United States; that yellow fever in the army at present is not epidemic; that there are only a few sporadic cases; but that the army is disabled by malarial fever to the extent that its efficiency is destroyed, and that it is in a condition to be practically entirely destroyed by an epidemic of yellow fever, which is sure to come in the near future. We know from the reports of competent officers and from personal observations that the army is unable to move into the interior, and that there are no facilities for such a move if attempted, and that it could not be attempted until too late. Moreover, the best medical authorities of the island say that with our present equipment we could not live in the interior during the rainy season without losses from malarial fever, which is almost as deadly as yellow fever. This army must be moved at once, or perish. As the army can be safely moved now, the persons responsible for preventing such a move will be responsible for the unnecessary loss of many thousands of lives. Our opinions are the result of careful personal observation, and they are also based on the unanimous opinion of our medical officers with the army, who understand the situation absolutely.

J. FORD KENT, Major-General Volunteers Commanding First Division, Fifth Corps. J. C. BATES, Major-General Volunteers Commanding Provisional Division. ADNAH R. CHAFFEE, Major-General Commanding Third Brigade, Second Division. SAMUEL S. SUMNER, Brigadier-General Volunteers Commanding First Brigade, Cavalry. WILL LUDLOW, Brigadier-General Volunteers Commanding First Brigade, Second Division. ADELBERT AMES, Brigadier-General Volunteers Commanding Third Brigade, First Division. LEONARD WOOD, Brigadier-General Volunteers Commanding the City of Santiago. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Colonel Commanding Second Cavalry Brigade.

https://www.bartleby.com/51/c.html

It was called a "round robin" letter because it was circulated and signed in such a way (presumably around a table) that the author could not be determined, but the letter is generally believed to have been drafted by Roosevelt.

[CousinIT]

7. Cpt Crozier is not only a hero but a credit to the ship's namesake.

And that makes what Trump did to him even MORE disgusting and disrespectful.