Here is a picture of Teddy Roosevelt taken in 1918 at Wittenberg College in Springfield, Ohio. He was invited to give a speech there to show support for this Germnan-Lutheran college at a time when the Hun was deeply out of favor. I look at the picture, yeah that's him. Then at the guard presenting arms. WTH! First I thought Krag, then crap! No side plate! Definitely not an '03. Look at the stock and the bolt release. Sure looks like a Mauser to me.

No, we don't have anything to do with Germany here, folks

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