In April, 1945, less than a month before Hitler committed suicide in his bunker, effectively ending World War II; Lt. Bob Dole, a small-town Kansas boy was leading a patrol against the Nazis in Italy. A Nazi machine gun had pinned down his radio man, and Lt. Dole, being a member of the Greatest Generation decided to rescue the unfortunate soldier.   His reward for that courageous act was swift; his body was shredded by the very same machine gun. So shredded, the Medics, doing instant triage,    left him for dead, and moved on. When they doubled back, after saving the ones they thought could be saved, they found him still alive.   His right arm was useless; he was paralyzed and could not walk.   Dole had been assigned to the elite 10 th  Mountain Division, to replace a commanding officer who had been killed in combat. Dole never understood why.   “I thought it was mighty odd that a kid from Kansas who had seen a mountain up close only once in his life would be assigned to lead a platoon

  Sweden is a mess.   It just made history by appointing its first female Prime Minister, she lasted eight hours. YES, EIGHT HOURS, she resigned after eight hours on the job.   Somali rappers are decimating native Swedish born rappers ( see the death of EINAR), and gun violence has reached an all time high.   “…. a throng of a hundred or so young men, most of them from African or Middle Eastern minorities, started fighting in a square in Hjallbo, a suburb of Gothenburg, Sweden’s second city. Members of rival gangs seem to have started the scrap over the theft of a moped. Two days later a man in a nearby grocery shop was shot in the back of the head, thought to be as an act of revenge for the gangland battle. Then a policeman in Biskopsgarden, another suburb of the city, was shot dead. A few days after that a man was murdered in a barber’s shop in Frolunda, yet another suburb. To add to this litany of recent criminal violence, two young children were lucky to survive last week after bei