The New York Times is reporting this morning that former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas almost passed last winter. He talks about it in a new book. Also, it appears we will hear more about Dole's life based upon a recent find:
While the story of Mr. Dole's war wounds and recovery has been written elsewhere, he was prompted to write this memoir after one of his sisters found nearly 300 letters between him and his family from World War II.
I was at the annual meeting of the South Dakota State Historical Society in Pierre for the last few days and one of the presenters talked at length about a wonderful collection of World War I letters he found from a young Wentworth man (Lake County) to and from his loved ones back on the farm. As these examples should prove, it's important to save such things, if only to give us historians something to rummage through in 30 years.
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