Charles T. Payne, 83, a great uncle to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is seen during an interview with the Associated Press Tuesday, July 22, 2008, in his apartment in Chicago. Helping to liberate Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp, in April 1945 was Payne's first close brush with history. He is enjoying his second brush as the great uncle of the Democratic presidential candidate, and said of his great nephew, "He's truly an astounding young man and always has been. Payne is the the brother of Obama's maternal grandmother. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

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