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"Steven James Forsberg" wrote in message ... : Bob Kerrey would certainly qualify, but he didn't make it : too far in his presidential bid. Bob Dole was in serious : combat, but I don't know if his shooting experience was : aimed or "to whom it may concern". Well, according to SLA Marshall there is a real question as to how much shooting in WWII was actually "aimed" at all. ;-) Double check that source. A few years ago the validity, if not the integrity, of Marshall's "research" was called into serious question. His work had been accepted as gospel for decades, but his methodology and conclusions have since been the subject of reinvestigation. Some have even gone so far as to claim he pulled his supporting "statistics" out of thin air. See: http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/P...n/chambers.pdf http://www.ku.edu/carrie/archives/mi.../msg00065.html More seriously, Dole was a 2lt on the front lines with the 10th Mountain Division (presumably infantry branch) when he was wounded trying to pull his wounded radioman to safety. IIRC from a speech he gave, he almost died three times (on the battlefield, and two different times after surgeries stateside). Got a Bronze Star and 2 Purple Hearts for his efforts. ISTR he once quipped about how he got assigned to the 10th Mountain Division -- "I'm from Kansas, and this was the army..." IIRC Dole spent a year or more under military hospital care while recovering from his wounds. Brooks regards, ----------------------------------------------------- |
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