I included the photo above because I saw it for the first time this morning and the resemblance between Senator Obama today and his grandfather, Stanley Dunham, is striking.
Anyway, the Senator is planning to visit his grandfather's grave in Hawaii. This is the grandfather, by the way, who fought in Patton's Third Army in World War II. In the Senator's words:
My grandfather - Stanley Dunham - enlisted after Pearl Harbor and went on to march in (Gen. George S.) Patton's (3rd) Army (that help liberate Europe in World War II). My mother (Ann Dunham), was born at Fort Leavenworth and my grandmother worked on a bomber assembly line. After my grandfather stood up for his country, America stood by him. He went to college on the GI Bill, bought his first home with help from the Federal Housing Authority. Then he moved his family west to Hawaii, where I was born, and where he and my grandmother helped raise me. He is buried in the Punchbowl, the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, where 776 victims of Pearl Harbor are laid to rest.”
--Excerpts from Remarks of Senator Obama: A Sacred Trust | Kansas City, MO | August 21, 2007, www.barackobama.com