Posted on 08/25/2021 4:43:57 AM PDT by RandFan
Vice President Harris on Wednesday paid tribute to the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on the third anniversary of his death by visiting a monument in Vietnam where his plane was shot down in 1967.
"John McCain was an extraordinary American hero," Harris said at the monument in Trúc Bạch Lake. "I was honored and privileged to serve with him for a short time in the United States Senate. John McCain, he loved our country.
"He was so courageous and really lived the life of a hero—the sacrifices he made that were on every scale imaginable, loved our country and really always fought for the best of who we are. And it turns out today is the anniversary, so there we are," Harris added as she stood in the rain.
McCain died three years ago after a long bout with brain cancer. Harris served in the Senate alongside McCain for roughly two years before his death.
The monument was built years after McCain was shot down over Trúc Bạch Lake in what was then North Vietnam and taken as a prisoner of war. McCain visited the monument multiple times during his roughly 25 visits to Vietnam after the war, the White House said.
Harris's visit to Vietnam comes as many experts are drawing parallels between the evacuation of U.S. personnel from Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War and the ongoing efforts to evacuate tens of thousands of American citizens and Afghan allies from Kabul as the Biden administration pulls U.S. troops out of Afghanistan after its government fell to the Taliban.
I’d like to go over there and urinate on the grave of the North Vietnamese rescuer who threw him a life preserver instead of an anchor.
“John McCain was an extraordinary American hero..BECAUSE HE HATED TRUMP,”
There....fixed it.
Isn’t there something wrong with honoring McCain in the location in which an enemy country (at the time) shot him down?
Maybe she’s a member of the squat.
They put up a monument where his plane was shot down..?? Who does something like that, are there monuments like that for all the others?
Speaks Volumes….
No Name was a traitor to the country and his fellow servicemen, and death took too long to claim him.
No Name gave aid and comfort to the enemy. Of course they'd honor him like that.
The optics....propaganda potential
Future Campaign ads to follow with Harris depicted as unifying, supportive of military and veterans, worldly... you can almost smell the BS already.
I doubt she has any care whatsoever for McCain, nor had any meaningful interaction with him.
Nope. At the time he served his country with honor, flew into harms way and risked being shot down. He was.
Pure evil by the wicked lady….. notice the timing of the trip. Coincides with McLames death. The world is burning and she is playing in the land of one of aMeriKa’s most serious defeat only to be bested by Walkaway Joe and his walking away from Afghanistan .
America has died.
No. The memorial was erected to preserve the memory of a US fighter pilot who, more than any other US serviceman, supported the effort to overthrow the democratic South Vietnam by the communists.
His undying (literally) efforts included speaking to American soldiers to lay down their arms. This hero of the Viet Cong was provided with special privileges for his support of the Communist regime. Truly, a great hero.
I wonder if she will also visit the John F’n Kerry Gallery at the Victory Museum in Ho Chi Minh City.
I hear it’s quite telling.
How many Americans does the enemy build a monument for?
A monument, eh? He must have given them great Intel.
Anymore proof that McCain threw the election in 2008?
NO comment. Not fit for a family site.
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