Posted on 09/02/2018 12:34:15 PM PDT by dustoff339
Fellow Freepers,
In all of the hoopla and bs surrounding the "final farewell" for McCain, one person seems to be significantly absent in it all.
That person in the original Mrs. John S. McCain: Carol McCain. For those who do not know, she was married to McCain when he was shot down over Vietnam. Prior to his deployment, Carol McCain was, by all accounts, quite a beauty. She was a 5' 7" tall, a successful swimsuit model, and the mother of three children (one by McCain, and two by an earlier marriage that McCain adopted). While McCain was a POW, she had an automobile accident that wrecked havoc on her body: she ended up at 5'3" tall due to the massive damage to her pelvis and her legs. She also gained some weight as a result.
McCain came back, saw this physically broken woman that was waiting for him, and promptly started running around (according to numerous accounts of his life, it was "well known" that John had numerous girlfriends during this time period). While still on active duty as an 0-6 Captain in the US Navy, he met Cindy Hensley (17 years his junior, and from a very wealthy family in Arizona), started dating her (while still married to Carol), and even filed for a marriage license with Cindy while still married to Carol!!! The rest is history.
None of this is new information...it has been out there in public records forever.
If I (as a former officer in the US Army) had done something like that, I would have been court-martialed for adultery and conduct unbecoming an officer! But....my daddy was a medically retired E-7, not a full admiral like his daddy and granddaddy.
My point is this...we all know why the MSM and the left are lionizing this adulterer and liar: it gives them yet another public forum to vent their anti-Trump rage.
McCain destroyed his original family to stroke his ego. That is much like the stories from some of the other POW's calling him Songbird: allegedly, he "sung" to his captors, betraying his country and thereby destroying the lives of other Americans to save his own life.
Good riddance to bad rubbish, in my opinion.
(PS: I think this is my first post in 10 or 12 years (although I read FR daily), so if I have done soemthing wrong, please let the admins feel free to delete it. It just really bugs me to see this circus happen without even a slight mention of the woman who stood by him while he was a POW.)
I read that Ross Perot donated money for Carol’s surgeries and care. I wondered where the McCain family was.
Correct:
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/27/us/pow-to-power-broker-a-chapter-most-telling.html
...His wife, Carol, a tall, slim woman who had once been a model, had nearly died in a car wreck in 1969.
H. Ross Perot, the businessman and advocate of prisoners of war, had paid for her medical care, but the injuries left her four inches shorter and on crutches, and she had gained a good deal of weight...
Dont be
I got fooled too
Dont be!
I got fooled too!
When it comes to McCain, I begin with treatment of his first wife and go from there. I thank him for his services to the countryand POW seems to be the highlight of it, but whateverwhile in the Navy. But nothing about his Senate career draws any admiration from me. As near as I can tell, he ran as a staunchly conservative R and legislated as a thoroughly malleable D.
Just a cheap shot on a dead guy. Give it a rest.
So, didn’t Newt Gingrich ask his first wife to sign divorce papers on her deathbed or somesuch?
Benedict Arnold and King Solomon are two examples of heroic people and great warriors who went bad.
It is not what you do when young, it’s where you at when you die.
man...that’s just wrong!
but, damned funny...
cheers.
Maybe I’d have to check it out.
Some say it was a rumor that got out of hand
45 isn’t the only one with the fake news army against him
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