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Show 'Roosevelt's, Son To Lie In France j Col. Roosevelt will visit the gravo of his son Queatln In France as soon as circumstance will permit. The colonel askrl I hat his son's body be permitted to remain where it had been burled, inrtead ot returning re-turning It home ac Is the custom ot government In all cases where American soldiers ells on foreign soil. His request was fronted by General March. .This Is the letter dated October 25, the Colonel wrote ft Mm: "Them closed clipping states that all the .American dend will be taken home after the wir re: ding to orders or-ders resolved by the a my chapters. I do not know whom to write to ln the matter, so I merely ask that you I turn this over to whomsoever hai charge of It. ! "Mrs. Roosevelt and I wish to en-1 ter a most respectful but most em-photlo em-photlo protest against the proposed course, ;-o far as our son Quentln is concerned. We have always believed that: ' " 'Where the tree falls, I There let it lie.' ' "We know that many good persons per-sons feel entirely different, but to ub K is painful and harrowing, long after death, to move the poor body 'B7' from which the soul has fled. We greatly prefer that Quentln shall continue to He on the spot where he fell In battle and where the foe-men foe-men burled him. . . -- . Ol "After the war Is over, Mrs. Rooscvslt and. I intend to visit the grave and then to have a small stone ' put up saying It is put up by us, but not disturbing what has already been ' erected to his memory by his friends , and American comrades In arms. I . "With apologies for troubling you, ' "Very faithfully yours. I 'THEODORE ROOSEVELT." . To this Gen. March replied: I "Washington, Oct. 29, 1918 , My dear Mr. Roosevelt: ' "I hare you letter of October 25, with reference to the bringing back of the American dead from France. "The policy of the war department depart-ment In this respect Is ot long standing, having been Initiated In the days of the Spansh war and tho Philippine Insurrection and contlnu-, Ing during the minor trubles In Mox-ico. Mox-ico. The policy la to return to tl I United States the bodies of our soldiers sol-diers who died oa foreign soil p ' Is In response t othe practically unanimous un-animous demand on the part of relatives rel-atives of the deceased soldiers. "In view, however, of your desire to havo tho body of your son Quentln Quen-tln remnln whore ho fell In Franco, which I am entirely in sympathy with, I am sending an order to Oen. Pershing to carry out your wishes In the mat'.er and am giving htm general gen-eral authority to take the samo course of action with regard to the body of any other soldier whoso relatives rel-atives or proper legal representatives desire such a course to be taken. "V:ry truly yours, "P. C. MARCH, "General, Chief ot Staff." 1 |