Really? “...an outstandingly brave and effective fighter pilot.” LOL
You obviously don’t know McCain’s true history and true “record”. You do know who his daddy was, don’t you????? He would have gone nowhere with out his daddy pulling strings, he was so incompetent and destroyed I don’t know how many aircraft while “practicing” as well as being at the very bottom of his graduating class. He was lazy and had a nasty, arrogant attitude.
Being a POW does deserve our sympathy and admiration for survival skills and perseverance and sacrifice, but the other attributes do not apply to someone like McCain-—like they would to a Louis Zamperini who did not lust for power or use his POW status for control over others and to actually help destroy Free Market Capitalism and our Health system, etc. that reduces vets to slaves of the state to make himself and his elite buddies filthy wealthy.
Read it again. It’s the definition.
Carson says war hero is a relative thing.
I’m just supplying the definition.