Ann Dunham was born in Kansas

[LSK]

Ann Dunham was born in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas<3> (some say Wichita, Kansas),<4> while her father was in the military.<5> She was named after her father,<3> who reportedly gave his daughter and only child his name because he had wanted a boy; however, she was referred to as "Ann".<6>

Her parents, Stanley Armour Dunham (born on March 23, 1918, raised in El Dorado, Kansas died February 8, 1992—buried in the Punchbowl National Cemetery) and Madelyn Dunham (née Madelyn Lee Payne) (who was born in 1922 and raised in Augusta, Kansas and is still living in Honolulu, Hawaii), met in Wichita, Kansas and married on May 5, 1940.<7>

After the Pearl Harbor attack her father joined the Army and her mother worked at a Boeing plant in Wichita.<3> At the end of World War II she moved with her parents to California, Texas, and Seattle, Washington, where her father was a furniture salesman and her mother worked for a bank. The family moved to Mercer Island, Washington, in 1956 so that 13-year old Ann could attend the high school that had just opened,<6> where teachers Val Foubert and Jim Wichterman taught the importance of challenging societal norms and questioning authority. Dunham took the lessons to heart; "She felt she didn't need to date or marry or have children". A classmate remembers her as "intellectually way more mature than we were and a little bit ahead of her time, in an off-center way."<6>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Dunham

Can we end this nonsense about Obama not being an American now?????????

[TheDebbieDee]

1. What are you talking about? Who's saying Obama is not an American?

Obama was born in Hawaii, which may or may not have been a state at the time of his birth.

[LSK]

2. this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3427163&mesg_id=3427163

[SemiCharmedQuark]

3. He was born in 61. Hawaii became a state in 59.