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On the recordJune 14, 2007
I think about my grandfather, who first became a father when my mother was born on a Kansas army base at the outset of World War II. He left to fight fascism in Europe while my grandmother stayed behind and pitched in on a bomber assembly line.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Obama recalling his grandfather's experience as a father during World War II.

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