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Sir, I abhor the political actions of McCain. However mistaken his political beliefs are, please do not attack this man personally. He endured five years of hell and did not betray his country nor his fellow warriors in chains.

I only wish that he were the honorable man that you think that he is.

There were a group of 500 American pilots rescued from behind enemy lines during WWII, who sought recognition from the US government for those who saved them. Instead, the US State Department kept a lid on the story of their rescue in order to appease the communist government that had since taken over that country. These Airmen were represented by Retired Major Richard Felman of Arizona, and they had the support of Arizona State Legislature, the Arizona American Legion, the Tucson Veterans Affairs Committee, former Sen. Barry Goldwater, former U.S. Rep. Mo Udall, and former Gov. Rose Mofford.

Here is how Major Felman described his experience with John McCain in an article for The Tucson Citizen, November 9, 1992:

"My hopes for finally uncovering the truth were raised when we elected U.S. Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., to represent us. I felt he could identify with what it meant to be rescued, since he was shot down in enemy territory and endured five years of torture in Vietnam.

It took me almost seven years to get an appointment with him. While expressing sympathy for our effort, McCain told me he could do nothing. Instead of calling for the investigation I requested of our serious charges - withholding the truth from members of Congress and using taxpayer funds to disseminate communist propaganda are federal offenses – he told me the only way to get at the truth would be for me to write the 435 members of the house of Representatives and get a majority of them to support our effort.

I thought the reason the people of Arizona elected politicians was to represent them in Washington.

At this point, our disillusioned group of aging veterans has given up trying to repay our nation's debt of honor to those on foreign soil who saved American lives. After risking our lives and watching our buddies in combat get their arms, legs and heads blown off, we returned home to find an uncaring bloated bureaucracy that treated our service to country with contemptuous disregard.

After 47 years of disappointments our noble effort has failed. How can we expect the government to level with the American people about the MIAs in Vietnam, when they are still covering up the truth about the MIAs from World War II? "

This was written in 1992. In 1999, Senator McCain made his name nationally known by bombing the very people that Major Felman had sought to honor, thereby empowering the jihadists who tried to bomb Fort Dix.

McCain suffered for his country and that is true, but so have many others -- not many of whom have spent their entire lives exploiting that military service as political capital the way John McCain has. He has had no sympathy for those who also served and suffered.

I am sorry but I don't share your respect for McCain. I think that he is a self-aggrandizing, cold-blooded, narcissist who needs to leave office now.