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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop - In a 1988 campaign-trail autobiography, here's how Dole described the incident that earned him his first Purple Heart: "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."
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I don't like your subject line, because I've always respected Bob Dole. However, he's also always been pretty much a down-the-line party man too, in a way McCain never was, which leads him to be willing to trot around on the talk shows and talk down Kerry and (by implication) trade on his own service and disability to benefit the GOP and tear down Kerry. [On the plus side, he got to run for President in 1996, which McCain won't.]
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