Don't think so. He crashed three planes, graduated pretty low in the class and was know as "songbird" to his fellow captives. Those are all facts. People are free to draw their own conclusions about John McCain. I'll say it again. He was a bad Rep. Senator who betrayed the people who voted for him by voting against what he said he was going to vote for. That is not an admirable quality. Dems liked him because he was the biggest RINO in the Senate. To me, he and Ted Kennedy were birds of a feather.[/quote]
Yet you laud and celebrate Trump, who paid his way out of serving by conjuring up a phony injury
Regardless of what you think of McCain's politics (which have nothing to do with your comment regarding military service) what he did in Vietnam was heroic.
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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.
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Trump is a great president. Trump didn't conjure up any injury. You don't conjure up bones spurs. They are either there or they are not. They were there according to the doctors who examined him. There is no proof that it wasn't a valid disability.
McCain was a bad senator. Also, his fellow captives called him a songbird and most of them despised him for what he did in collaborating with the North Vietnamese. They don't consider him a hero in any sense. The North Vietnamese used McCain to spread lies about our war there. He and Jane Fonda were the two biggest helps to their misinformation campaign. Most combat veterans did not consider him anykind of "hero".
Me? I don't judge and think that anyone tortured has a breaking point where he will do or say anything to stop it. So I do not condemn McCain for what he said and did. His fellow prisoners who were also tortured don't think the same and I respect the hell out of them. I don't judge him to be anything other than a guy who served his country and had honor for doing so. I guess I consider him a "hero" but then I consider anyone who served in combat a hero.
I can judge him as a lousy senator though and a lousy husband. I also think Trump was a lousy husband also but a great president. That's it.