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September 04, 2008
Hot diggity
I only caught part of Sarah Palin's speech at the Republican National Convention last night, but in browsing the internet, I found quite the interesting nugget. Apparently she mentioned dear old Lancaster in her speech, while talking about John McCain and his time as a prisoner of war:
In describing how Sen. John McCain would bring compassion to the White House, Palin told the story of "fellow prisoner of war, a man named Tom Moe, of Lancaster, Ohio."
At the mention of Moe's name, the 88 members of the Ohio delegation, seated front and center on the convention floor, rose to their feet and cheered wildly. Moe, 64, is a first-time convention delegate.
Palin described how Moe recalled "looking through a pinhole in his cell door as Lieutenant Commander John McCain was led down the hallway by the guards."
"As the story is told," Palin continued, "when McCain shuffled back from torturous interrogations, he would turn toward Moe's door and flash a grin and thumbs up - as if to say, 'We're going to pull through this.' "
This is really surprising to me, because it's the first time I ever heard that a fellow POW with McCain was living in Lancaster. I figured that the newspaper would have been all over that years ago. There isn't much else to talk about there, is all I'm saying.
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Posted at September 4, 2008 11:33 PM
Comments
She mispronounced it, though. She said Lan-caster instead of Lancaster.
Posted by: Candi at September 9, 2008 09:59 PM