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Posted on: Thursday, August 14, 2008

Obama visits Punchbowl to pay respects at grandfather's gravesite

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After a busy day that included a visit to his grandfather's gravesite, Barack Obama enjoyed shave ice with his daughters Sasha, 7, second from left, and Malia, 10, second from right, and their friends in Kailua.

ALEX BRANDON | Associated Press

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U.S. Sen. Barack Obama yesterday visited the gravesite of his maternal grandfather at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl.

He also spent Day 6 of his Hawai'i family vacation playing golf, visiting the Pali Lookout and taking 12 children for shave ice.

Obama, who arrived in Ho-nolulu Aug. 8 with his wife, Michelle, and their two daughters, is scheduled to leave Hawai'i tomorrow.

Following a morning round of golf at Luana Hills Country Club in Kailua, Obama and a group of about 20 people went to the cemetery, where his grandfather, Stanley Dunham, a World War II veteran, is buried. Obama credits the Dunhams with raising him as a youth in Honolulu.

"Let's go see your great-grandpa," Obama told his daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, before they set out for the gravesite. Obama carried a flower lei and was joined by his brother-in-law, Conrad Ng to the grave site.

At Island Snow in Kailua, he ordered keiki-size shave ice for the 12 children. "It is right before dinner. I don't want to get in trouble," he said.