Sunday, August 22, 2004

Bob's Dole's First Purple Heart

In a 1988 campaign-trail autobiography, here's how Dole described the incident that earned him his first Purple Heart (thanks to Josh Marshall):

"As we approached the enemy, there was a brief exchange of gunfire. I took a grenade in hand, pulled the pin, and tossed it in the direction of the farmhouse. It wasn't a very good pitch (remember, I was used to catching passes, not throwing them). In the darkness, the grenade must have struck a tree and bounced off. It exploded nearby, sending a sliver of metal into my leg--the sort of injury the Army patched up with Mercurochrome and a Purple Heart."

It's a shame that at this stage of Dole's career he is as he always was in politics, just a bag man for a bunch of shamless creeps.

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