RIP Bob Dole

[User170512]

Bob Dole, war hero, longtime U.S. senator, presidential candidate, dies at 98

Bob Dole, who overcame grievous World War Two combat wounds to become a pre-eminent figure in U.S. politics as a longtime Republican senator from Kansas and his party's unsuccessful 1996 presidential nominee, died on Sunday. He was 98.

www.reuters.com

 

[fattboyzz]

 

[keith089]

Godspeed Sir

 

[rbstern]

I'm in no position to criticize a man who took a bullet for this country, was badly maimed and disabled, and then had the strength to go thru a difficult rehabilitation and put himself into the pressure and criticism that comes with the public limelight, carrying on for another eighty years. That's some pretty stern stuff.

RIP, Mr. Dole.

 

[Alaskan]

Godspeed

 

[GeauxLSU]

I'm in no position to criticize a man who took a bullet for this country, was badly maimed and disabled, and then had the strength to go thru a difficult rehabilitation and put himself into the pressure and criticism that comes with the public limelight, carrying on for another eighty years. That's some pretty stern stuff.

RIP, Mr. Dole.

Is it OK if I still contend McCain sucked?

 

[Freshly Minted Georgian!]

Actually he took an artillery shell of some sort. Almost took off his arm and it paralyzed him for a considerable period of time. Local medics (Italy) assumed he wasn't gonna make it so they gave him a max dose of morphine, marked his forehead (so he wouldn't accidentally be given more) and sent him to the aid station. Once evacuated he also got a raging infection which wasn't responding to penicillin so they gave him something entirely experimental at the time, streptomycin, which turned the corner for him.

Tough guy, a straight up warrior in a horrifically brutal theater of war in WWII. My grandfather and his brother were both there too and likely chewed some of the same dirt as Dole.

 

[rbstern]

Is it OK if I still contend McCain sucked?

I wasn't a fan of McCain, either, but I wouldn't spit on his grave.

 

[GeauxLSU]

Actually he took an artillery shell of some sort. Almost took off his arm and it paralyzed him for a considerable period of time. Local medics (Italy) assumed he wasn't gonna make it so they gave him a max dose of morphine, marked his forehead (so he wouldn't accidentally be given more) and sent him to the aid station. Once evacuated he also got a raging infection which wasn't responding to penicillin so they gave him something entirely experimental at the time, streptomycin, which turned the corner for him.

Tough guy, a straight up warrior in a horrifically brutal theater of war in WWII. My grandfather and his brother were both there too and likely chewed some of the same dirt as Dole.

And still made it to 98. He was the butt of a lot of jokes and grief, but nobody can deny he was a tough ole bird.

 

[BillsCamino]

And grows some yummy pineapples....