[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.

[aquila48]

Was there something dishonorable about what I wrote? I acknowledge that he went through a lot of suffering as did all of his fellow prisoners.

My only point is that doesn’t rise to the level of hero.

[Duchess47]

My husband is one of those “agent orange” survivors, with plenty of in country experience, and earned just about every one of the diseases agent orange so graciously bestowed. Diabetes, cancer, heart disease, kidney disease.

In and out constantly as a dog handler, then a tour in Saigon as an information specialist.

Oh, no imaginary metals either. As a matter of fact, you would only know he was a VN vet if you asked him, he doesn’t advertise it at all.