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Joe Osman wrote:
Bob McKellar wrote: 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..." A distinguished and witty gentlemen, without a doubt. They sent him all casts and bandages on a troop train back to Kansas and when his family went on the train to get him they found that the rest of the soldiers had been using him as an ashtray. I guess I misplaced my sense of humor. I may not be a Republican, but we were in the same convoy going to Italy in December 1944, and he deserves better than to have jokes made about the wounds he sustained for his nation. George Z. Joe |
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