Disabled but not discarded

[corrocamino]

Very unusual story, this!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20592861 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20592861)

I take exception only to this assertion by the writer: "Politicians with visible disabilities remain rare today." (YOU know what I mean.)

[truthmatters]

Bob Dole has a firm grasp on his pen.

[corrocamino]

Bob Dole has a firm grasp on his pen.

What about the firmness of his other grasps? :rollseyes:

[truthmatters]

Bob Dole grasps a pen becuase he is disabled.

Its how he deals with a withered arm and hand from his war injuries.

[truthmatters]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dole#World_War_II_and_recovery



World War II and recoveryIn 1942, Dole joined the United States Army (http://thepoliticalforums.com/wiki/United_States_Army)'s Enlisted Reserve Corps to fight in World War II (http://thepoliticalforums.com/wiki/World_War_II). Dole became a second lieutenant (http://thepoliticalforums.com/wiki/US_Second_Lieutenant) in the Army's 10th Mountain Division (http://thepoliticalforums.com/wiki/U.S._10th_Mountain_Division). In April 1945, while engaged in combat near Castel d'Aiano (http://thepoliticalforums.com/wiki/Castel_d'Aiano) in the Apennine mountains southwest of Bologna (http://thepoliticalforums.com/wiki/Bologna), Italy (http://thepoliticalforums.com/wiki/Italy), Dole was hit by German machine gun (http://thepoliticalforums.com/wiki/Machine_gun) fire in his upper right back and his right arm was also badly injured. As Lee Sandlin describes, when fellow soldiers saw the extent of his injuries all they thought they could do was to "give him the largest dose of morphine (http://thepoliticalforums.com/wiki/Morphine) they dared and write an 'M' for 'morphine' on his forehead in his own blood, so that nobody else who found him would give him a second, fatal dose."[10] (http://thepoliticalforums.com/#cite_note-10) The hospital where Dole recovered from his wounds, the former Battle Creek Sanitarium (http://thepoliticalforums.com/wiki/Battle_Creek_Sanitarium), is now named Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center (http://thepoliticalforums.com/wiki/Hart-Dole-Inouye_Federal_Center) in honor of three patients who became United States Senators: Dole, Philip Hart (http://thepoliticalforums.com/wiki/Philip_Hart) and Daniel Inouye (http://thepoliticalforums.com/wiki/Daniel_Inouye).
Dole was decorated three times, receiving two Purple Hearts (http://thepoliticalforums.com/wiki/Purple_Heart) for his injuries, and the Bronze Star (http://thepoliticalforums.com/wiki/Bronze_Star_Medal) with combat "V" (http://thepoliticalforums.com/wiki/Valor_device) for valor for his attempt to assist a downed radio man

[truthmatters]

This tea party bat shit crazy republican party who FEARS the UN like a child fears monsters in their closet walked past a WWII hero and voted like tin foil hat idiots

[Chris]

This tea party bat shit crazy republican party who FEARS the UN like a child fears monsters in their closet walked past a WWII hero and voted like tin foil hat idiots

Warning: This violates rule #9 (http://thepoliticalforums.com/threads/6236-The-Political-Forums-Revised-Rules-and-Regulations). Please desist.

[corrocamino]

Bob Dole grasps a pen becuase he is disabled.

Its how he deals with a withered arm and hand from his war injuries.

I know, thanks.

[truthmatters]

bump

[truthmatters]

so you wont ger any of the disabled Americans votes next election as well as the black vote and the latino votes and and Asian votes and the womens votes and the youth vote and the well what votes a left for yoyu to get?

[Cigar]

Wow

[truthmatters]

yeah they just keep illiminating voters from their rolls.

Just how much do they think they can cheat?