Madelyn Dunham, Barack Obama's maternal grandmother who helped raise him, died of cancer in Hawaii this morning. Barack just spoke movingly of her in North Carolina as a "quiet hero." That's her on the far right, with Barack's grandfather (you can see the resemblance) and the girl who would become his mother. His grandfather served with Patton in World War II while his grandmother worked on a bomber assembly line. She later went to college and worked her way up to become a vice-president in a bank. Sadly, she died one day before the election that may well make her grandson the President of the United States.
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