FOXNews is spending a lot of time waxing on and on about how Dole ‘worked across the aisle’ and Biden visited Dole a few months back in the hospital... and here’s some Democrats talking about how Dole “liked to ‘get things done” - for Republicans AND democrats...
Really insulting and a slap in the face to the memory of a man who ran the Republican Party for years.
RIP Bob Dole. A war hero and a good man.
RIP.
RIP, Warrior
When he was in DC, he made time to come greet the WWII Honor Flight buses even though we weren’t from his state. Once when he couldn’t come, Elizabeth came.
Down Boy.
Rest in Peace good sir, and thank you, for your service.
Voted for him. I think he would’ve made a measured, calm, decent President.
Read his Bio this afternoon after not reading it for a long time. Very impressive. A true war HERO where others just give lip service.
I hope he and Norm Macdonald are enjoying one another and laughing it up. ;)
RIP
In 1942, [Robert] Dole joined the United States Army’s Enlisted Reserve Corps to fight in World War II, becoming a second lieutenant in the Army’s 10th Mountain Division. In April 1945, while engaged in combat near Castel d’Aiano in the Apennine mountains southwest of Bologna, Italy, Dole was seriously wounded by a German shell that struck his upper back and right arm, shattering his collarbone and part of his spine. “I lay face down in the dirt,” Dole said. “I could not see or move my arms. I thought they were missing.” As Lee Sandlin describes, when fellow soldiers saw the extent of his injuries, they believed all they could do was “give him the largest dose of morphine they dared and write an ‘M’ for ‘morphine’ on his forehead in his own blood, so that nobody else who found him would give him a second, fatal dose.”
Dole was paralyzed from the neck down and transported to a military hospital near Kansas, expected to die. Suffering blood clots, a life-threatening infection, and a fever of almost 109 degrees; after large doses of penicillin were not successful, he overcame the infection with the administration of streptomycin, which at the time was still an experimental drug.
He remained despondent, “not ready to accept the fact that my life would be changed forever”. He was encouraged to see Hampar Kelikian, an orthopedist in Chicago who had been working with veterans returning from war. Although during their first meeting Kelikian told Dole that he would never be able to recover fully, the encounter changed Dole’s outlook on life, who years later wrote of Kelikian, a survivor of the Armenian genocide, “Kelikian inspired me to focus on what I had left and what I could do with it, rather than complaining what had been lost.” Dr. K, as Dole later came to affectionately call him, operated on him seven times, free of charge, and had, in Dole’s words, “an impact on my life second only to my family”.
Dole recovered from his wounds at the Percy Jones Army Hospital.
(from Wikipedia)
I was a skull full of mush in college who thought Clinton was cool. Realized, somehow, that leftists are attention whores and control freaks with no moral compass. Wised up and voted for Dole in 96. RIP
Dole was not a weak Republican, however I didn’t vote for him, since I thought was Libertarian would be better for America, unfortunately the Libertarian Party, while having some great ideas, also had idiots running it. Now I’m an America First libertarian Constitutional independent.
Hard to believe that we lost Bob Dole and Norm MacDonald in the same year. I called him “Bob Dull” back in the 90’s, and I probably voted for some 3rd party nonsense in 1996 because I saw Dole as being too mushy. Compared to what the GOP has become, Bob Dole was a warrior for what is right. Bottom line: he seems to have been a decent man who loved this country and its people. RIP.
Bob Dole has died
Sounds like something Bob Dole would say. :D
RIP A long and devoted life of sacrifice.
We’ve lost another good one...
RIP, Senator Dole, and blessings to your family.
RIP
Dole for pineapple not for President.
May he rest in Peace. A hero many times over.