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To: Oatka

So, the same problem as it’s namesake.


7 posted on 12/23/2019 9:10:33 AM PST by ALASKA (Watching an attempted coup by a thousand cuts....)
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To: ALASKA

The USS John McCain is not named after the late turncoat senator. It is named after his father, an admiral in World War II & Vietnam and a genuine war hero.

About a week ago, I listened to a podcast about the flight of Apollo 8, which took three astronauts to the moon and back without landing on the moon. The astronauts splashed down in the Pacific on December 27, 1968, meaning that several Navy ships, including a carrier, needed to go to sea by Christmas in order to pick them up. The podcast included the meeting between NASA chiefs and the elder McCain, where the elder McCain agreed to send out the ships. I was glad the podcast said nothing about the younger McCain, except to comment that the admiral’s son was a prisoner in Hanoi at the time.


35 posted on 12/23/2019 9:37:34 AM PST by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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