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2021-12-05 -Obits-

Bob Dole, Former Republican Presidential Candidate, Dies at 98

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Posted by Fliper Sparong5938 2021-12-05 13:25|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Dole searched for his radio operator to call for reinforcements. The man was slumped over in his own blood, radio in hand. Dole crawled over to him to pull him to a shell hole.

And that’s when it happened.

“I felt a sting, as something hot, something terribly powerful crashed into my upper back behind my right shoulder,” Dole wrote.

It could have been a mortar round, an exploding shell or machine gun fire. Whatever it was, it tore through his shoulder and spine, instantly paralyzing him from the neck down. His body twisted in the air, and he landed face down in the dirt.

Soon, one of his men pulled him behind a wall before being ordered to keep going. A sergeant dragged him another 60 yards to relative safety. Dole was drifting in and out of consciousness and remembered only excruciating pain and bleeding profusely.

He was given a dose of morphine, and the sergeant wrote an “M” on his forehead with Dole’s own blood to signify as much when the medics showed up.

They waited for more than six hours. Two medics who had been sent to retrieve him were themselves killed. Dole lay flat on the ground in the rain, thinking about Kansas.

Eventually, Dole was carried down the mountain on a stretcher and transported to a military hospital.

Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-12-05 16:02|| 2021-12-05 16:02|| Front Page Top

#2 A better man than most politicians these days. May he rest in peace.

Posted by Glenmore 2021-12-05 16:32|| 2021-12-05 16:32|| Front Page Top

#3 A gentleman politician that was comfortably boring to watch in the media. est well, soldier.

Posted by magpie 2021-12-05 16:58|| 2021-12-05 16:58|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Rest well, soldier.

Posted by magpie 2021-12-05 16:59|| 2021-12-05 16:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Most politicians of that era were better by far than the lying conniving, self-aggrandizing weasels who make up out current moronic elite.

Even that era's lefties like McGovern served honorably. Carter, Mondale, Ford, Dole: for all their flaws, none of them used his office to line his pockets like Bathhouse Barry or Gore or the Clintons have, or the Bidens have done and continue to do.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-05 17:01|| 2021-12-05 17:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Also: after their time was up, they didn't hang around D.C. grasping for power and subverting their successor, as Barry and his entourage have done for nearly five years now / since January 2017

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-05 17:36|| 2021-12-05 17:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Heard him speak (without TV cameras) at a group setting in '98. Great speaker when off the cuff, and a really good story teller.

Shook his good hand and thanked him afterwards. It was truly an honor.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-12-05 20:32|| 2021-12-05 20:32|| Front Page Top

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