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Major Quentin Roosevelt was the youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt and his wife Edith. In 1917, when the United States entered WWI, Quentin --who had trained as a pilot on a Long Island airfield --dropped out of Harvard and joined the 1st Reserve Aero Squadron, the nation's first air reserve. A year later, on July 14, 1918 (Bastille Day), his plane was shot down outside of Chamery, France by a German pilot. Quentin was twenty years old. He was buried at the site beneath a makeshift wooden cross. Later, a wooden enclosure was added to the gravesite that had become a shrine to American soldiers and aviators. Because of the significance of the site, President and Mrs. Roosevelt decided not to bring their son back to the US for burial. Already weak from an Amazon expedition and brokenhearted by Quentin's death, Theodore Roosevelt died six months later. In 1955, Quentin's remains were moved to the World War II American Cemetery in Collesville-sur-Mer , France, an...