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I’m sorry but I have searched everywhere I can to find out what was it that McCain actually did that made him a war hero. And I have yet to find out exactly what concrete things he did that saved lives, that were crucial to strategic military victories or that inspired men to fight for freedom. I just don’t see it.

So I disagree with Donald Trump who calls McCain a war hero.

I call McCain a person who suffered greatly as a POW but there were many others who did the same, in fact there were tens of thousands that suffered greatly in that war and more than 50,000 of them paid the ultimate price. I see McCain as someone that survived against great odds but there were many who did the same.

Please if I am wrong, tell me exactly what McCain did that was so extraordinary that it resulted in saving lives or winning key military victories.

I do know of one person whose acts of heroism are clear and transparent:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3314592/posts

I’m sorry but I have searched everywhere I can to find out what was it that McCain actually did that made him a war hero.

Try "Hanoi Hilton" as a search term on IMDB.com (Internet Movie Data Base). There was a movie made about 15 years ago, about the Hanoi Hilton and the men who were sent there .... and sometimes didn't come home.

The film discussed McCain's "special case" (he was the aviator son of a victorious WW II carrier admiral) and the delicacy with which Hanoi Hilton veterans discuss who was and was not broken by the Hanoi interrogators. McCain certainly got an outsized dose of their sadism because he was a celebrity flier, and there have been whispers that he may have been broken, which other veterans of Ho's special hellhole won't discuss on the record.

I was favorably impressed by all the veterans in the film, and although I made a mental reservation about McCain, nevertheless my favorable reaction included McCain, although I recognized that his politics had begun to change by the time the film came out, and McCain was beginning to respond to whispers about national office by changing his political stands on a wide range of public issues, in order to curry favor with the Prog-polluted national media and the GOP-E borons back East.