Not knowing what I would have done under the same conditions, I can’t comment on the ‘betrayal’.
But McCain has been wearing that War Hero badge waaaaaay too long, and it doesn’t excuse his harebrained ideas and actions, esp. on ME (association with IS, for example).
B1-Bob Dornan and Senator Smith are talking about McCain’s betrayal of POWs in the U.S. Senate.
A teacher had been a POW. No one knee till his passing. MC Cane used it as one would use race or gender as a shield to hide his true self