“He was also not the only POW nor was he particularly more courageous than the other POWs”
Except for the fact that he might have been the ONLY one there by choice. The more I learn about mccain and his early career, the more convinced I am that he either allowed himslf to be shot down, or he delibrately crashed his own plane...as he had done twice before to get himself kicked out of the military, (among other things.) His father’s position kept him in and he resented his father beyond belief.
I know for a fact that mccain lied about his time as a POW. I know that he stole other POW’s acts of valor and attributed them to himself. For instance, his shoulder injury was not the result of torture. It was/is the result of having broken his collarbone and other bones when he crashed and the lack of VIP medical care.
Since then, mccain has never met a war he didn’t like as long as it wsn’t him fighting in it. I believe he despises the miltary.
I’ve known about his POW time for quite a while now. I had the opportunity to talk with some former POWs years ago who didn’t exactly have fond memories to relate about mclame and his time as a POW. I also read some interviews by some who went through aviation training with him and several who were assigned to the same unit as he was. They all say that if it were not for his father/grandfather that he would have never made it through flight training much less the numerous crashes and near-crash incidents he incurred. One indicated that there was a pool about how many missions he would fly before being shot down.