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| U.S. Senator Bob Dole Picture from Wikipedia page |
I met him several times as a reporter while in Iowa and South Dakota in the late 1980s.
He was a friend of the man who owned the first radio station I worked in after college. They served in the same unit during World War II - the Army's 10th Mountain Division. Dole was injured in 1945 during combat when hit by German machine gun fire.
The injury left him with limited mobility in his right arm and numbness in his left. In public he carried a pen in his right hand and shook hands with his left - I remember one time shaking hands with our left hands.
The interviews don't stand out, but his status as a politician and war hero made him larger than life.
He is 95 now - among the last of the surviving veterans of the Second World War - worthy of our thanks and recognition along with thousands of others who served and fought whether at home or abroad during that war or other conflicts.
If you know a WWII vet, today would be a good time to say thanks and wish them well on Veterans Day.
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