[aquila48]

“Ok so he was shot down, captured and he sang. And he was out of the war for five years. So he is a “war hero” exactly how ?”

I agree, we use the word “hero” too freely. It diminishes REAL heroes.

The best and most honest appraisal of McCain’s vietnam experience is that he endured a lot of suffering, but that doesn’t rise up to a hero status. I’m sure every other prisoner went through the same ordeal.

[golux]

“Ok so he was shot down, captured and he sang. And he was out of the war for five years. So he is a “war hero” exactly how ?” I agree, we use the word “hero” too freely. It diminishes REAL heroes. The best and most honest appraisal of McCain’s Vietnam experience is that he endured a lot of suffering, but that doesn’t rise up to a hero status. I’m sure every other prisoner went through the same ordeal.


My service was extremely modest but may I posit that you would do well to give a REAL combat POW (unlike the scores of faux-PTSD "Agent Orange" losers with $2000 in monthly benefits, imaginative medals and no combat or even theater experience one meets incessantly) the benefit of the F'n doubt.

Have the decency to honor a man with whom you disagree.