Posted on 05/27/2008 7:11:24 PM PDT by OKSooner
You just reminded me, I had a distant cousin who was an aide with Patton. He told us kids stories of Patton, but never mentioned anything about the camp.
Was Treblinka even liberated? I don’t think it existed when the Russians got there, did it?
My fault, I was thinking of Treblinka II, the extermination camp the nazis “erased” prior to the Russian arrival. Treblinka I still existed and was indeed liberated.
Any truth to this? (from Dan Riehl’s site Riehl World View)
Okay, so we have supposedly learned that it was Obama’s Great Uncle that liberated a sub-section of Buchenwald, not an uncle at Auschwitz. But if sources are correct and unless there’s some arcane military history in his favor, Obama still has a problem.
His only Great Uncle is Charles W. Payne. It at least appears that no one by that name from Kansas served in the Army during WWII.
Charles W. Payne of Kansas, with a similar birth era, served in the Navy during WWII.
Just sayin’
Good work Freepers - so far - keep working. And keep putting this info in front of the noses of the stupid liberalisimo media “reporters”.... (who used to investigate facts - but that was long ago and far away).
> But if sources are correct and unless there’s some arcane military history in his favor, Obama still has a problem...
(grin!) He’s got a huge problem, mate. Some of us remember and revere The Greatest Generation, and their memory matters to us. We are a HUGE problem to Obama.
Obama’s uncle/cousin/great-uncle/whatever? probably Served his country, and probably served honorably and well. So we are grateful for his Service, insofar as it was done. But that is a separate issue surely.
To consolidate his reckless ambition to become POTUS Obama is telling lies and fooling around with History, invoking Stolen Valor to further his ends. This is wrong. And we are not fools.
What better tribute for Memorial Day, than to out this lying, Valor-stealing grifter? Aren’t we tired of liars in high public office? Doesn’t the Greatest Generation deserve at least this much from us?
Obama is a liar, and his lying scalp would make a fitting Memorial to the Greatest Generation from those of us who have pledged that “From the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will Remember Them.”
I’m a foreigner, with no direct “skin in the game” with the US elections, and probably (by extrapolation) not much business having an opinion in this matter. Yet it *does* matter to me, that the man with his hand on the red button be a man who is not an arrant liar and a willfully perjured individual. If things go wobbly in the US, our cost of living skyrockets in NZ and my mortgage rates go up: so OF COURSE it matters to me!
Obama is a thoroughly-dodgy fellow, and there is more than enough shonky-ness about him to make me feel really uneasy about his candidacy for the most powerful job on this planet.
God Bless America.
*DieHard*
Not a peep about him here: http://www.89infdivww2.org/home/jan2005.htm
Not a peep about liberating a camp here:
http://www.history.army.mil/lineage/cc/089id.htm
lists the company’s nickname as “Rolling W” and slogan as “Get it done”
This one has the bit about liberating the camp:
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10006140 and includes: “Ohrdruf was the first Nazi concentration camp liberated by U.S. troops in Germany. “ Also includes video: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_fi.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10006140&MediaId=3722
That’s all I can find for now. Off to work!
Very well said! I agree 2000%!
"As we landed at the local airport today, I had to run from the plane ducking Bosnian sniper bullets until I got into my 50' stretch bullet proof SUV. While running and ducking sniper bullets, I remembered my crazy uncle in the attic, who might have served in WWII."
Hussein ObamaMessiaHamas will not be known as Honest Abe. Instead he will be known as: Dishonest Ibrahim Lincoln
Damn Pajama Media and Internet. I can’t lie anymore!
Soooooo...Obama's Uncle was in the NAVY....not in the Army??? YIKES!!
It seems that BHO took one too many trips on the Yellow Submarine.
Ping!
Off topic, but just a thanks to Vicki Mckenna for mentioning this thread on WISN in Milwaukee, and Hello to all the new conservatives who heard of FR for the first time today.
Good to hear....
The Pajama Media strikes again!
So Obama had a GREAT uncle (not an uncle)
who served in WWII in the NAVY (not the Army)
who somehow helped liberate a Buchenwald subcamp (not Auschwitz)
who, as a result of the horror he saw, stayed in the family’s attic for six months.....(the last assertion needs attention)
Am searching for someone’s post about Obama that starts out - something like - well “not exactly”...and chronicles all the lies O has uttered .....saying one thing when the FACTS are, well, not exactly what he said..
Anybody see that post? can’t find it and can’t find how I bookmarked it....heck can’t even find my own bookmarked posts here...
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