This blogger discusses the entire controversy and is an interesting read. This was his conclusion:
I contacted the webmaster of the 89th Infantry Division site to see if I could get more information. He simply said that the site stands by its previous statement that Obama’s great uncle, Charles Thomas Payne, served in Company K of the 355rd Regiment of the 89th Infantry Division.
The sad thing is that people are taking this seriously as some sort of horrible sin committed by Obama. If you count this somehow as evidence that Barack Obama will make a bad president or that he is some sort of gaffe machine, I can only conclude that you’ve been comatose for the last decade.
http://hanlonsrazor.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/obamas-great-uncle-and-the-shameless-nay-sayers/Not to mention a post from the devil himself admitting fault in this:
# cigarskunk
May 28th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
OK, here’s the verification he provided - I recomended that he scan and post the page from the book on his website so folks will stop pestering him -
From: markkitchell@yahoo.com
To: cigarskunk
Subject: Re: Searching for Charles W Payne
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 20:25:32 +0200
I confirmed it from actual 89th Division documents. The list is in the book linked below. As you know, there is no centralized database on WWII units. Most of the records were lost in a fire at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis in 1973. Everything I am reporting is in this book, which is a compliation of offical (wartime) 89th documents.
Sorry but if you are going to persue this to verify you are going to have to actual research with original source documents. Thats what I have done.
http://cgi.ebay.com/WWII-UNIT-.....18Q2el1247So now all we’ve got to do is find the book and confirm he’s telling the truth.
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