Thursday, August 14, 2008

Obama visits Punchbowl to pay respects at grandfather's gravesite



Did pretty good at his fundraiser too. Some pics here.

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama yesterday visited the gravesite of his maternal grandfather at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl.

(snip)

Following a morning round of golf at Luana Hills Country Club in Kailua, Obama and a group of about 20 people went to the cemetery, where his grandfather, Stanley Dunham, a World War II veteran, is buried. Obama credits the Dunhams with raising him as a youth in Honolulu.

"Let's go see your great-grandpa," Obama told his daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, before they set out for the gravesite. Obama carried a flower lei and was joined by his brother-in-law, Conrad Ng to the grave site

1 comments:

Lucy said...

Miss Corky will call Obama's visiting his grandfather's grave exotic too I guess. Of course you won't hear of McCain visiting HIS grandfather's, or even his father's grave and laying a wreath.
I was very moved about what the people on the video had to say.

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