Tom Hanks Remembers Bob Dole At World War II Memorial: “The Memory And Conscience Of The Man Himself Will Always Be Here”
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deadline.comTom Hanks was among the speakers who paid tribute to Bob Dole at a ceremony on Friday at the World War II Memorial.Dole, who died on Sunday at age 98, played a major role in the effort to build the memorial, which opened in 2004, and Hanks was an advocate to get it built.As he told the crowd at the memorial, Dole “did all but mix the concrete himself.”“Bob Dole came to this plaza often to remember, to talk with veterans like himself and to their posterity, by greeting them with a shake to his left hand,” Hanks said. “The memory and conscience of the man himself will always be here, right here, for as long as there is an America and that is a good thing, because here, we will always remember Bob Dole.”Hanks is the campaign chair for the
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