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.

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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

On Nov 2, 3:13�pm, Billy Burpelson wrote:

...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.

As the highest-ranking POW and the son and grandson of US admirals,
the Vietnamese offered to release McCain due to his extensive
injuries. He declined and was actually tortured more for denying the
North Vietnamese their propaganda coup. He has been quoted as saying
he couldn't leave the other men behind. To this day, he can't lift his
arms above his shoulders. I won't be voting for Senator McCain, but
I'm not really going to allow you to demean this man's heroic courage.

Shut up.