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BOB DOLE LECTURE: One Soldier’s Story
Special Edition

In this extraordinary special edition, Bob Dole returns home to Kansas—and to the school that bears his name—to tell the story that shaped everything that came after.

Standing before a new generation, Dole recounts the moment on a battlefield in Italy when his life was shattered by war, and the long, uncertain months that followed in a military hospital. With humility, clarity, and quiet courage, he describes learning to live again from a hospital bed, facing pain, disability, and doubt—while refusing to surrender the future.

But this is not just a story of survival.

It is the story of how a wounded soldier became a national leader.

From Percy Jones Army Hospital to the halls of Congress, from small-town Kansas to the pinnacle of American political life, Dole traces the improbable road that carried him from despair to purpose, and from service in uniform to service in government.

Recorded before students at the Bob Dole–named school, this lecture is both deeply personal and profoundly American—a testament to resilience, duty, and the idea that adversity does not define us, but can instead forge us.

One Soldier’s Story is Bob Dole, in his own words, offering a legacy lesson about courage, perseverance, and what it truly means to serve.

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