The pen served two purposes — a kind, subtle gesture to discourage people from shaking it, and a therapeutic remedy to an injury that changed Bob Dole’s life forever.
Dole has a history of battling wounds and health issues dating back to his military service during World War II.A native Kansan, Dole as a young adult was briefly a student-athlete on the University of Kansas’ football, basketball and track teams when in December 1941, he heard over the radio that Pearl Harbor had been bombed. A year later, he enlisted in the U.S. Army’s Reserve Corps, leaving for active duty in June 1943.
A belief in hard work, an aversion to big talk and Kansas roots he never lost: Bob Dole's abiding legacy For his sacrifices, Dole received two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster. But it was the use of his right arm and hand that he so desperately sought to restore, undergoing extensive therapy and seven failed surgeries.
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