Sen Bob Dole 1923-2021

"Bob Dole War Injury - Why Bob Dole Always Carries A Pen In His Right Hand - What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys ..."

The Who2 Blog   "Us military officer during wwii, kansas house of representatives member, l. Bob dole, a former longtime senator and the 1996 republican presidential nominee, announced thursday that he has been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. Bush at the capitol in 2018. Bob dole has announced that he has been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys . . .".

. . ."Wow! This is Dole the year he turned 20, standing next to an artillery piece. He had enlisted in the Army the year before, and obviously spent some time bulking up. Look at those legs! He was 192 pounds, according to the photo caption, and most of it muscle.

"Dole had been a three-sport athlete in high school. He thought he might go home after the war and become a doctor, but the Nazis had other plans". . .

. . . "Charging a german position in northern italy in 1945, dole was hit by a shell fragment that crushed two vertebrae and. Dole also ran for president as the republican candidate against bill clinton in the 1996 election. Bob dole (right) speaks in the white house rose garden in 2007 alongside president george w. In world war ii, dole sustained an injury while storming a german machine gun nest that left him paralyzed from the neck down. Former kansas senator and presidential candidate bob dole announced that he has been diagnosed with stage four lung cancer." . . .

"(For many more photos of young Bob Dole, see the Robert and Elizabeth Dole Archive at the University of Kansas.)"

Running against Bill Clinton, Dole found it necessary to shake hands with a man who said he "loathed the military"