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Funny, I was just looking at that site too. They say it was found on LexisNexis from the Charleston Gazette, so it seems that Obama simply re-used the passage from the 2002 speech? What interests me, primarily, is that he is so careless with the simplest facts from the history of his country, his family, and the Holocaust. Not only did his 7+ years at Occidental + Columbia + Harvard give him no elementary knowledge of history, but he did not even acquire the most rudimentary scholarly conscience or sense of the importance of accuracy when dealing with historical events. Typical leftist.

In West Virginia a few weeks ago, Obama said his grandfather enlisted the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, which was December, 1941. [Charleston Gazette (West Virginia) April 8, 2008, Tuesday, available on Lexis.com]

“My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton’s army. He saw the dead and dying across the fields of Europe; he heard the stories of fellow troops who first entered Auschwitz and Treblinka. He fought in the name of a larger freedom, part of that arsenal of democracy that triumphed over evil, and he did not fight in vain.

Here is the WWII Kansas Veterans Index. His grandfather, Stanley A. Dunham, enlisted in the Army on June 18 1942, six months after Pearl Harbor. [Hat tip Baldilocks.)

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/5/28/02342/3539