, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.

" who was one of the, who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps..."

...only if Obama's uncle served under Joseph Stalin in the Red Army, which actually liberated Auschwitz Jan. 27, 1945.

Interestingly, Obama's camp said he mistakenly referred to Buchenwald as Auschwitz.

but this is what Obama said in a speech in 2002[link is pdf format]:

My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton’s army. He saw the dead and dying across the fields of Europe; he heard the stories of fellow troops who first entered Auschwitz and Treblinka. He fought in the name of a larger freedom, part of that arsenal of democracy that triumphed over evil, and he did not fight in vain.