By the way, both the men of my regiment and the friends I had made in the old days in the West were themselves a little puzzled at the interest shown… - Theodore Roosevelt

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By the way, both the men of my regiment and the friends I had made in the old days in the West were themselves a little puzzled at the interest shown in my making my speech after being shot. This was what they expected, what they accepted as the right thing for a man to do under the circumstances, a thing the non-performance of which would have been discreditable rather than the performance being creditable.