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? Naval aviator training, Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida. ? United States Navy 1958-1981, Pilot, Captain, with service in Vietnam; ? Prisoner of war, Vietnam, 1967-1973; ? Awards: Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross |
• President Barack Obama has not served in the military but has a family of war veterans with impressive military records. • His grandfather, the late Stanley Dunham served in combat and "marched in Patton's Army" while his grandmother "worked on a bomber assembly line". • Obama's uncle was part of the American brigade that helped liberate Auschwitz concentration camps. • Obama's claim that his grandfather had got himself enlisted in the Army the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, is contradicted by Army records that show Stanley Dunham had signed up six months after Pearl Harbor. • During a Memorial Day speech in New Mexico, Obama remarked "I cannot know what it is to walk into battle like so many of you" and "I cannot know what it is for a family to sacrifice like so many of yours have." • The military was "an ennobling... honorable option" for Obama. During his teen years in Hawaii, Obama enjoyed attending the parties at Army bases and had once considered serving in uniform as well. • He confided about having to sign up for Selective Service when he graduated from High School in 1979. Unfortunately, the Vietnam War had come to an end and "we weren't engaged in an active military conflict at that point", thus ending Obama's desire to pursue the military option. |
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