My classmates have been slaughtering me because my name PAYNE sounds like Pain.
Now I know the name has some historical significance. How cool is to be associated with an American presidential candidate. I missed the news but dad, trying to console me pointed that Barack Obama' uncle was known as Payne.
Isn't it cool.
Here is the newspaper quotation;
"Senator Obama's family is proud of the service of his grandfather and uncles in World War II — especially the fact that his great-uncle was a part of liberating one of the concentration camps at Buchenwald," campaign spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement. "Yesterday he mistakenly referred to Auschwitz instead of Buchenwald in telling of his personal experience of a soldier in his family who served heroically."
Aides said Tuesday that his grandmother's brother, Charlie Payne, helped liberate a Buchenwald sub-camp in April 1945 as part of the 89th Infantry Division.
Cool
