I think Bob Dole is still a hero for speaking out yesterday. HE ROCKS!!!!!!!!
Bump.
I'm not sure Eisenhower was really in Europe in the 1940s.
Oh. Right. Like that magnificent ur-patriot, Max Cleland, in other words. Gotcha. :)
Ah, it's only "The Nation". It would be like the left pointing at some Newsmax story and saying "gotcha!"
I'm ALMOST speechless.
Ever any talk about Max Cleland's injuries?
Senator Dole was virtually run out of office during his candidacy because the American Sheeple were told that he had to resign from the Senate in order to run for President.
(file under: Things that make you say "Hmmmmm....")
o Kerry and Hitler were both "War Heros" with medals.
o Kerry and Hitler were heros in wars that their nation "lost".
o Kerry and Hitler were both "Wounded" in that war.
o Kerry and Hitler are both opportunists.
o Kerry and Hitler are dedicated to overthrow the existing order.
o Kerry and Hitler were both leaders of radical organizations willing to use violence to win.
o Kerry and Hitler used national dissatisfaction with the war they fought in to gain political prominence.
o Kerry and Hitler are both adopted by the super-rich as a vehicule to take political control.
o Kerry and Hitler are both socialists.
Yet everyone is suppose to swoon and cry that skerry allegedly got some shrapnel in his ass.
And they attack a man that was a POW for 6 years.....why....BECAUSE HE WAS A VOLUTEER FOR BUSH. Evil Dums are the lowest scum of civilized society.
Picking apart a vets record seems a bit unseely doesn't it? But it seems like it becoming accepted practice.
Non-negligent self inflicted wounds suffered during combat are eliligible for the PH. But there has to be hostile fire, not just shooting up brush.
Yep. The Left is high-minded and we're simply low-life scumbags if we question THEIR record. When it comes to double standards, liberal hypocrisy knows no bounds.
During the 1996 cmpaign I had heard of this from my brother in law's father. He had served in 10th Mtn and said that Sen Dole was wounded by dropping a grenade. I asked himwhy would the Army isue citations and medals for such stupidity to a 20 year old shavetail with no political connections? He said that everyone in the Division had heard the story and gave no reason why the medals were given.
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.
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.