Obama's Memorial Day Speech

[82Rigger]

Las Cruces, New Mexico -


“I had a uncle who was one of the, who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camp and the story in our family is that when he came home, he just went up into the attic and he didn’t leave the house for six months, right. Now obviously something had really affected him deeply but at that time there just weren’t the kinds of facilities to help somebody work through that kind of pain.”


Red Army Marshall Georgy Zhukov would be surprised to hear this.
He was under the impression that it was his 322nd Rifle Division that liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27th, 1945, while the nearest American troops were still 500 miles to the west, closing the Bulge and pushing out of Belgium.

Ah, well....at least Obama's uncle didn't have to dodge sniper fire in Bosnia.