All Our Children

During World War 2, Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., was waiting at an airport for a plane.

A sailor asked at the ticket window for a seat on the same plane, explaining, "I want to see my mother; I haven't much time."

The indifferent person at the ticket window was not impressed. "There's a war on, you know," she replied.

General Roosevelt, who overheard the conversation, went to the uncaring woman at the window and told her to give the sailor his seat.

A concerned friend of the Brigadier General asked, "Teddy, aren't you in a hurry, too?"

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. answered, "It's a matter of rank ... I'm only a General; he's a Son!"

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