The VOR
Gold Member
- May 8, 2011
- 8,825
- 1,726
Superbadbrutha
McCain wasn't a hero. He was a surviving POW like thousands of others. People called him a hero and he used that to launch his career in the Govt. And he milked that career for every dime he could get out of we the tax payer.
As a POW in Vietnam, John McCain refused release until his fellow prisoners were freed, making him a hero in the eyes of many
Sen. John McCain, a giant of American politics who died on Saturday at 81, was perhaps most profoundly shaped by his military service and more than five years as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.
www.businessinsider.com
"And McCain's survival through years of nearly fatal torture and hardship in the Hanoi prison known as the "Hanoi Hilton" was made more impressive by his refusal to be repatriated before the release of all the American POWs captured before him."
Seems pretty heroic to me.