Ralph Emerson Dunham, 92, President Barack Obama's great-uncle on his mother's side..
This Oct. 26, 1944, photo provided by the Dunham family shows Stanley Armour Dunham, while serving in the U.S. Army somewhere in France during World War II. Dunham, the man whom Barack Obama would one day call Gramps, was a 26-year-old supply sergeant in the Army Air Force when the Allied invasion of Normandy at last began.
Ralph Emerson Dunham, 92, President Barack Obama's great-uncle on his mother's side, talks to the Associated Press during an interview at a retirement community, Tuesday, May 26, 2009, in Springfield, Va.
FILE - This undated photo provided by the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., shows Obama's maternal grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham, in Cambridge, Mass., during World War II. Dunham was a 26-year-old supply sergeant in the Army Air Force when the Allied invasion of Normandy at last began
Ralph Emerson Dunham, 92, President Barack Obama's great-uncle on his mother's side, holds mementos of his deceased brother Stanley Armour Dunham during an interview with the Associated Press at a retirement community, Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Ralph Emerson Dunham, 92, President Barack Obama's great-uncle on his mother's side, looks at an old address book while talking to the Associated Press at a retirement community Tuesday, May 26, 2009, in Springfield, Va. The military address of his brother Stanley, Obama's grandfather, is crossed out on the bottom left page
This Aug. 1945, photo provided by the Dunham family shows Army Sgt. Stanley Armour Dunham, his wife Madelyn Payne Dunham, and 2-year-old daughter Stanley Ann, future mother of Barack Obama, in Augusta, Kan. The man Barack Obama would one day call Gramps, was a supply sergeant in the Army Air Force when the Allied invasion of Normandy began; the family headed to California after the war, and Dunham enrolled at Berkeley under the GI bill
This 1920s photo provided by the Dunham family shows the last family photo of Ralph Waldo Dunham, left, with his wife Ruth Armour Dunham, and sons Ralph Emerson Dunham, left and younger brother Stanley Armour Dunham, right, future grandfather of Barack Obama.
FILE - This Nov. 7, 2008, file photo shows the grave site of then President-elect Barack Obama's maternal grandfather, WWII veteran Stanley Armour Dunham, at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl in Honolulu
This 1947 photo provided by the Dunham family shows Stanley Armour Dunham after WWII. The man Barack Obama would one day call Gramps, was a supply sergeant in the Army Air Force when the Allied invasion of Normandy began; the family headed to California after the war, and Dunham enrolled at Berkeley under the GI bill.
This Sept. 14, 1946, photo provided by the Dunham family shows Stanley Armour Dunham, with his daughter Stanley Ann vacationing at Yosemite National Park, Calif. Dunham, who Barack Obama would one day call Gramps, was a supply sergeant in the Army Air Force when the Allied invasion of Normandy at last began, headed to California after the war, and enrolled at Berkeley under the GI bill.
This photo provided by the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., WWII veteran Stanley Armour Dunham playing with his grandson Barack Obama
This undated photo provided by the Dunham family shows Ralph Emerson Dunham, second from left, his English wife Elizabeth "Betty" Smith Dunham, during their honeymoon visit with his maternal Aunt Doris Armour, third from left, in Kansas after World War II. The man at right is an unidentified friend. Dunham, later became the great uncle of Barack Obama.