Sketch T R Smiling

I love Teddy Roosevelt, and this digital sketch was taken from a photo that reminded me of one of my favorite Teddy Roosevelt stories. Of course he preferred to be called The Colonel, which is so Teddy Roosevelt.

He was making a speech, and someone shot him, the bullet hit his eyeglass case and then the speech before hitting him. As blood seeped from his chest he completed the speech. Teddy had enough medical knowledge to know if he wasn’t coughing up blood, it had not hit his lung, so he continued.

After the speech, he accepted medical attention. The doctors determined it was more dangerous to remove than to leave, and the bullet remained for the rest of his life. Did I mention the speech was fifty pages long?