Well it now appears it may simply Obama who doesn’t know enough or doesn’t care to be able to relate the story accurately.
CNN story refers to statement from Obama camp that says it was a great-uncle serving in the 89th Infantry Division, liberating one of the sub-camps at Buchenwald. That does seem to be borne out in the division history, IF the Obama campaign is now accurate about the great-uncle and IF said great-uncle was actually there:
http://www.89infdivww2.org/ohrdruf/ohrdrufintro.htm
Be prepared for the push-back as the Demagogues and the MSM scream “how could you dare to question the heroic tale of a liberator of Buchenwald?”
The real question should be
“HOW COULD OBAMA BE SO CARELESS AND INACCURATE ABOUT EVENTS OF SUCH ENORMOUS MORAL AND HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE?”
He has botched this story in both 2002 and 2008, that we know about. At the very least it is fair to say he knows nothing about the history of the liberation of Europe in 1945.
“At the very least it is fair to say he knows nothing about the history of the liberation of Europe in 1945.”
Or the history of his family. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if his campaign folks find stuff like this and give it to Obama on the plane ride to the next speech. (”Oh wait - TOMMORROW is Memorial Day? Quick, find something in his family’s history about WAR”.)
Would account for the uncle vs. great uncle. Aushwitz (famous) vs. Buchenwald (not quite so famous), etc. Sort of like giving the answers on a pop-quiz.
I hear he has another uncle who fought the Germans when they bombed Pearl Harbor
According to Ancestry.com Obama’s missing gramma had one brother Charles W. Payne, born about 1924. No record of a Charles W. Payne enlisting or being inducted in Kansas during WWII. Unless he left Kansas at 18 or so.
http://www.kshs.org/genealogists/military/wwiiveteransresults.php?page=1036&branch=A
Just call me a bit skeptical. Once a fibber, always a fibber.
Now check out what he said in a speech in West Virginia in April:
“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.
So, in April Obama claimed his grandfather heard stories from American soldiers who were the first to enter Auschwitz and Treblinka.