A Tribute Well Deserved
October 25th, 2009
I’ve had this article stored for some time and it escapes me why I did not post it earlier.
While the article may be a bit out of date, the content is anything but.
Bob Dole, a venerable 86 years old now, was back in the Washington limelight over the weekend, appearing on ABC TV to dispense counsel on a bipartisan approach to health care, popping up in newspapers explaining how to cut a deal, even suggesting Gen. David Petraeus as a presidential possibility.
But his most heartfelt weekend activity took place elsewhere, out of sight of Washington politicos and devoid of any potential for gain or notoriety. It came under a brilliant Saturday-morning sun, when the former Republican presidential candidate, now a bit more frail than most Americans recall him, stepped out of a car and strode to the National World War II Memorial to greet, one by one, 108 fellow World War II veterans who had been flown to Washington from South Carolina to see the monument built in their honor.
Put aside the long political career of the former Senator/Majority Leader.
Bob Dole’s efforts to insure the men and women who participated in World War II would be remembered for generations to come is an accomplishment which will live forever in this beautiful memorial erected in their honor.
Pictures of several events at the Memorial here.
Written by Sue
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