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...anything less. But all his plans for a normal life died young. He calls April 14, 1945, "the day that changed my life." It's likely that the experience of near fatal injury and nearly impossible recovery would have affected 50 different people in 50 different ways. For Dole, who had grown up in a family and a town that prized perseverance, the injury acted mainly as a magnifier. He became himself, only more...
...young man in a small town," Dole said when he announced his candidacy last summer, "my parents taught me to put my trust in God, not government, and never confuse the two." Self-reliance was bred in the bone. His family, his neighbors, his whole thirsty town of Russell, Kansas, lived one day at a time through the 1930s, when little would grow, when the dust filmed the windows and smothered the crops, when some farmers slaughtered their cattle and then killed themselves rather than face the shame of bankruptcy. They knew about making do with what they...
...road out would be a steep, narrow one, marched single file, but that suited him just fine. Dole was always a soloist, the one with whom the girls in his high school said they'd most like to be marooned on a desert island. He was a natural basketball player who preferred running track, a sport that allowed him to depend on himself and train all alone. At this he was not a natural--he willed himself to become a top half-miler in the state. But still he played basketball, the team sport, because that was the route that...
...most fateful decision Bob Dole ever made, like so many that would follow, he made all alone. He found himself on an April day on a hillside in Italy, trying to lead a platoon that was pinned down by German gunners and surrounded by land mines called Bouncing Betties. When Dole saw his radioman go down, he crawled out of his foxhole to retrieve him; the soldier he was trying to save was already dead, and by the time the firing stopped, Dole very nearly...
...Dole has occasionally talked about how the signal event in his life--not so much the injury itself as the effort to overcome it-- made him more sensitive and dependent on other people. It is a bond that is still at work when he fights to help the disabled and disfranchised, defending food stamps and voting rights and the Americans with Disabilities Act. When he went to campaign in Indianapolis, Indiana, earlier this summer, he made a detour to attend the graduation party of a young girl who had been partially paralyzed in a car wreck. While other people...