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Billy Burpelson wrote:

No matter what your politics, John McCain is an American hero.
Mcain was a P.O.W. Thats to bad. But it doesn't make him a hero.

Telamon wrote:

How about flying over enemy territory and getting shot down? Does that
make him a hero?

...not when he was being a "maverick" and disobeying orders from his
commanding officer. Maybe if he followed orders, he wouldn't have been
shot down.

Maybe if you were there guiding his decisions with your superior
hindsight he would not have been shot down.

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Telamon
Ventura, California