The most exciting gestures ever made by the enemy in war

 In July 1918, the youngest son of former President Theodore Roosevelt entered the massive aerial fight on World War I's Western Front.

A promising U.S. Army pilot, Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt made his first confirmed kill on July 10th. But just four days later, the 20-year-old was surrounded by German planes and shot down.

When German forces realized that they had killed the son of a president, they took the extraordinary step of holding a military funeral for him. More than 1,000 German soldiers reportedly looked on as Roosevelt was buried under a wooden cross that was held together with wire from the wreckage of his plane. Meanwhile, in the United States, the Roosevelts mourned their loss and the country grieved alongside them — with one town in Pennsylvania even changing its name to Quentin in honor of the fallen soldier.