Illinois Tea Baggers Cheapen and Shame Our Nation's Service Men & Women's Sacrifice and Service

[mikekohr]

In 1941, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor two brothers, related to six US presidents, enlisted in the Army.

In 1944, these brothers, Stanley and Ralph Dunham went ashore at Normandy and served their Nation fighting the Nazi’s across France, Italy and Germany. Another young American, Stanley’s, brother-in-law, Charles Payne, fought with Patton’s Third Army and was among the troops that liberated the prisoners at the Nazi Death camp of Buchenwald.

In 1945, upon return from Europe, Stanley and his wife Madelyn, who had served the nation’s war efforts by working on a B-29 assembly line, settled down and started a family.

In 1961, a grandson was born to the Dunham’s at the Kapi’olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital, in Honolulu United States.

In 2008, that grandson won the election for President of the United States by a 9,522,186 plurality.

In 2009, on the 5th day of the 9th month, a group of Americans gathered at Bureau County’s Soldiers and Sailor’s Park in Princeton Illinois, a park dedicated to honor the service and sacrifice of all of America’s service men and women. On that day, the grandson of Stanley and Madelyn Dunham, on this hallowed ground, was compared to Adolph Hitler, his name was mocked and his citizenship questioned.

Today, Sergeant Stanley Dunham rests in the Punchbowl National Cemetery where he was buried with full military honors. The light from Sergeant Dunham’s, and his family’s sacrifice, and service, will brighten the shadow that one day darkened Bureau County's place of honor on that regrettable day in 2009, a day that will be not long remembered and quickly tossed on the trash pile of history.


mike kohr
Princeton, Illinois

[hileeopnyn8d]

1. The name is

Dunham. You may want to correct that.

[mikekohr]

2. Thanks!

spell check don't fix stupid.

mike kohr

[hileeopnyn8d]

7. No problem

I didn't want you to submit it somewhere with an error like that.

[wndycty]

3. Thank you Mike Kohr!

:kick:

[wndycty]

4. Mike can I publish this on Windy City Watch?

:kick:

[mikekohr]

5. Absolutely!

I represent the 18th district on the Bureau County Board and am the President of the Depue/Bureau County Democrats.

mike kohr

[wndycty]

6. thanks. . .I am headed to breakfast will post it later. . .

[whistler162]

8. NO NO AND NO....... One thing doesn't relate to the other.....

GEEZ.... what is it with the lack of mental usage!

Yeah they don't like Obama, the government, and might be racists but feebly attempting to link their beliefs to a insult to WWII or any veteran is stupid and childish!

[wndycty]

9. No its night. . .the right bases alot of is agenda on supposed "honor"

and by ignoring Obama's heritage, especially the fact that his grandfather and uncle served this country in WWII it shows you how they disrespect veterans.

What to do you think his grandfather would think, or his uncle who is still alive would think.

[mikekohr]

10. To borrow a line from "Inglorious Basterds,"

"Yes, yes, yes, yes."

The baggers chose a hollowed site of honor dedicated to soldiers and sailors and engaged in racist Muslim-phobic denigration of the presidents name. Men and women have fought and died to preserve racial and religious tolerance and freedom in this nation. Millions of men and women lost their lives fighting Nazi Germany and the baggers compared President Obama to Adolph Hitler.

I'm sorry you can't make the connection.