The president may be America’s commander in chief, but over the years many have experienced the same wartime wounds from losing family in battle as their fellow citizens. This Memorial Day weekend, test your knowledge of presidential relatives who made the ultimate sacrifice with this short, easy and fascinating quiz.

1. This president, who received the Medal of Honor posthumously for his own wartime gallantry, was deeply shaken by the loss of his son in World War I.

J. Mark Powell is a novelist, former TV journalist and diehard history buff. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.

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