The Dunham grandparents:
He enlisted for military service in World War II in June of 1942 and served in Patton’s 3rd Army. He saw no combat.
Imagine yourself as Obama's white grandmother in the '60s. Not only does your daughter exhibit a preference for marxist blacks and muslims, she's studying Russian with them! At the very time we came closest to outright nuclear war with the USSR!
If there was any military history in the family, this might be reasonable. But there isn't, and I can only assume Stanley's mom wanted Obama out of the fellow traveler scene.
The Dunham grandparents:
He enlisted for military service in World War II in June of 1942 and served in Patton’s 3rd Army. He saw no combat.
http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaFamily.htm
Quote: In 1958, Obama Senior was awarded an American sponsored scholarship in economics to the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He was selected by a former Kenyan cabinet minister, the late Tom Mboya, who was earmarked as the successor to Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s first prime minister and leader of the terrorist Mau Mau.
The presumption was that Senior would return to Africa and use his “Western-honed skills in a new Kenya.”
In 1959, at the age of 23, Obama Sr. left behind his pregnant wife Kezia and their children to become the first African student enrolled at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
At the very time we came closest to outright nuclear war with the USSR!
Yeah. For me the duck and cover drills had a special urgency during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and while on a Marine Corps air base in the south east...