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Posted on 08/23/2004 6:35:15 AM PDT by VisualizeSmallerGovernment
Let's not hear any more talk about how high-minded the left was about Bob Dole and his medals eight years ago. The Nation argued that Bob Dole got his first Purple Heart for a self-inflicted wound. Robert Ellis, who, like Dole 10th Mountain Division in World War II, sought to debunk the "myth" of Dole's heroism:
The truth about Dole's war record is considerably less than awe-inspiring. Yet the myth endures, and with the candidate running on the contrast between his and Clinton's military record, his campaign isn't eager to give a more accurate account. Dole, at the behest of his handlers, is less reticent about his service than in the past, but he mainly speaks about his wound and rehabilitation. He has passed up several opportunities to correct the exaggerated versions in biographies, and in the case of his self-wounding has even approved a sanitized account in which his maladroitly hurled grenade goes unnoted. Journalists continue to portray him as a hero, winner of two Bronze Stars. Joe Klein, for example, writes in Newsweek that Dole knows "what guns do. He also knows what politicians do, which is rarely anything quite so dramatic as leading an army into battle." Such attempts to make political capital out of Dole's war service go beyond the respect due him for the role he played as a soldier with the 10th Mountain Division.
A presidential candidate's fellow veteran makes claims, charging the candidate wasn't the hero his party says he was? Unprecedented!
When Kerry was between wives, it was reported that Kerry dated a famous actress, and on their first date, showed her the film clips of himself in VietNam.
Is the Navy really all that radical?
Very funny. The Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) would be listed as a terrorist organization post-9/11 thanks to their consideration of using political assassination to achieve their goals. The Ruckus Society, who supports Kerry through funds provided by his wife, should be considered a terrorist organization. The Ruckus Society is the modern equivalent of the SA organization, who performed the same function for Hitler in starting civil disturbances which could then be used by Hitler to justify taking power.
I will continue to state on my blog that the current Democratic party leadership is the modern heir to naziism, and this is just more proof to show the parallels between the two.
Wow! He's so...so....hot! (NOT!)
Kerry is a toad.
Yes, the lovely Miss Coulter-and it was pretty interesting how Cleland got injured.
The Nation = The Left? I don't recall any challenges other than the arcane one mentioned here to Dole's service.
No wonder Dole was so pissed about the Kerry thing. He took it like a man, which is more than Kerry will do.
Speaking of Eisenhower, how many people know that, even though he won a Distinguished Service Medal during WWI, he was never in combat? (Dwight Eisenhower) By the criteria used by the Dems, he never should have been made Supreme Allied Commander in WWII.
Kerry's crying like a little girl. If he can't even handle a few old vets, how the hell could he handle a Islamic attack in this country? What'll he do? Try to sue them?
He's too much of a cry baby to be trusted with the important stuff.
My guess is there was NO second date.
bttt
In 1942, Bob Dole joined the Army's Enlisted Reserve Corps to fight in World War II. He became a second lieutenant in the Army's 10th Mountain Division.
By April of 1945, he was fighting the Nazis in the hills of Italy where the action was fast paced. One of the platoon's radio men was hit. Bob Dole crawled out of his foxhole to help him, but it was too late.
Suddenly, while trying to assist the downed radio man, Dole was hit by Nazi machine gun fire in the upper right back and his right arm was so damaged that it was unrecognizable. Dole was immediately given morphine by an Army field medic to alleviate the pain, and his forehead was marked with an "M" in his own blood to alert medics. He was not expected to live.
Dole waited nine long hours on the Italian battlefield before he was finally taken to the Fifteenth Evacuation Hospital. After a brief stay in a field Army hospital in Italy, he was transported back to the United States and to Topeka's Winter General Army Hospital, where he continued his painful recovery and endured a kidney operation. Then, he was transferred to Percy Jones Army Medical Center in Michigan, where he survived his second brush with death -- blood clotting. He was a patient in that hospital along with Phillip A. Hart, whose name graces one of the U.S. Senate office buildings, where Bob Dole occupied an office.
Eventually, he returned to Percy Jones Army Medical Hospital for extensive therapy on his rebuilt arm. It took about three years and nine operations for Bob Dole to rehabilitate. He learned to strengthen his injured arm, and also had to learn how to write with his left hand, as the doctors could not rebuild the excessive damage done by the Nazi machine gun fire.
Bob Dole was twice decorated for heroic achievement, receiving two Purple Hearts for his injuries, and the Bronze Star Medal for his attempt to assist the downed radio man.
Faith and Courage to Survive
As Dole lay in his Michigan hospital bed, he realized through prayer and introspection, that God had a plan for him of faith, endurance and strength. In addition, Bob Dole realized that laughter was the best medicine.
Through his faith in God, the heroic determination of the medical staff, and the loving support of his family and friends, he did not give up. He was determined to recover from the devastating wound that left him with a shattered right shoulder and paralyzed him from the neck down.
When you read and learn about how the people and lives of Russell shaped Bob Dole's life, it is truly amazing to read how they came together to help him during his time of need in the hospital. A cigar box was placed at Dawson's Drugstore, where the citizens of Russell pitched in to pay $1,800 in hospital bills. In addition, Dr. Hampar Kelikian, a Chicago surgeon, agreed to perform seven corrective surgeries at no charge. To this day, Dole keeps the cigar box and receipts in his office as a reminder of the compassion that was shown by the people of Russell.
Dole knows better.
In a 1988 campaign-trail autobiography, here's how Dole described the incident that earned him his first Purple Heart: "As we approached the enemy, there was a brief exchange of gunfire. I took a grenade in hand, pulled the pin, and tossed it in the direction of the farmhouse. It wasn't a very good pitch (remember, I was used to catching passes, not throwing them). In the darkness, the grenade must have struck a tree and bounced off. It exploded nearby, sending a sliver of metal into my leg--the sort of injury the Army patched up with Mercurochrome and a Purple Heart."
btt
I'v discussed this alot. Ann in that article was trying to say he's no war hero.
Max went to Vietnam. He got a silverstar a week before his injuries. If Max came back from Vietnam and opposed the war and did what Kerry did. Then you can talk to me.
But someone like Ann who never fought for this country and never will, shouldn't be telling me, Max Cleland who has a Silverstar is no war hero.
Walton Walker who was the top general in the Korean War.
He died not in warfare, but in a car accident in Korea
Freak accidents happen in war. George Patton also died in a car accident in Europe.
Never play with grenades.
I meant the left.
"Yet everyone is suppose to swoon and cry that skerry allegedly got some shrapnel in his ass."
No, no he had a Rice Enema.
While he was with rASSman....
Makes you wonder, eh?
Do you think this person is a war hero?
Read this and look how he got killed.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1134963/posts
Here is the last post on the thread I listed above.
stars & stripes forever
American Heroes like Landin Garrison keep our nation free.
Now you tell me mrmargaritaville, do you believe Garrison was a war hero? I'm waiting for your answer?
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