Obama's Doctor's wife instantly recognized her husband's signature...

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She said she instantly recognized her husband's signature on Obama's birth certificate — especially because it had no period after the middle initial "A."

"He was supposed to be named David Augustus, but his mother didn't like Augustus," Sinclair said. "So he didn't have a middle name. It was just ‘A.'

Sinclair was the son of former Territorial Engineer Karl Sinclair, who later became engineer for the City and County of Honolulu.

David A Sinclair, a lifelong Democrat, witnessed the attack on Pearl Harbor as a 15-year-old boy and later became an Army Air Corps lieutenant, flying night missions in a P-61 over Asia, Ivalee Sinclair said.

She met him after the war in trigonometry class at the University of Hawaii in 1946 when Sinclair wanted to become a doctor.

"After dropping so many bombs, he wanted to do something that was positive in the world," she said. "He felt badly about all of the people he had killed and went into medicine to give back the lives he had taken."

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[Jackpine Radical]

1. So what was the good doc doing in Kenya?

I just know I'm gonna need this-------> :sarcasm:

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2. To give you an idea how things have changed

My 9th grade daughter is taking Trig next year as a 10th grader. That used to be a standard college level class.

[RandomThoughts]

3. When?

we had trig in 10th or 11th grade 30 years ago.

[exboyfil]

4. I guess sometime before that

Trig was a relatively common 11th grade class in 1981 (it has since slipped back to 10th grade now). My father-in-law (1958 High School Grad) has said he took Trig in college, and he was a math major.