Presidential Candidates tell stories of their fathers, from the stump

Martin and Tom O'Malley

Martin O’Malley’s father, Tom, was a World War II veteran, who “flew 33 missions over Japan in a B-24 Liberator and went on to college only because of the G.I. Bill,” as Mr. O’Malley explained in his announcement speech.

Mr. O'Malley, the former governor of Maryland, credits his parents for the optimism he says he has for the future of the country. “But they would never accept the notion that somehow theirs was the Greatest Generation,” Mr. O’Malley told the crowd in Baltimore. “For they believed and they taught us that every generation of Americans has the ability and the sacred responsibility to make themselves great for their country."

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