Bob Dole's War Wounds, Political Defeats: 'Picture of a Full Life'
By Eric Mack | Sunday, 05 December 2021 06:32 PM
Bob Dole had a political career of near misses, but it was the near death in World War II that defines him more than any – as the political world mourned the loss of the "war hero" who died at 98 in his sleep Sunday morning.
Ultimately, he fell just short of what he once joked in 2014 was part of his life's goal.
"That I lived to be 200, or at least 100," Dole said then at age 91, "and that I have never forgotten where I was from."
He almost never got close.
Army 2nd Lt. Dole was leading an assault against a German machine gun nest in Italy when enemy fire tore through his spine and right arm. He nearly died, spending three years enduring multiple operations and painful physical therapy.
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