Sad to read of Senator John
McCain's medical problems. I wish him well and hope he can return soon to the
Senate.
I've not always agreed with
Senator John McCain, but I voted for him for president and I respect his
service as a Navy pilot, POW and as a senator.
Senator McCain's actions as a
POW in North Vietnam were indeed heroic. He was tortured but he never gave in
to his Communist tormentors. The North Vietnamese wanted to release him early
because his father, Admiral John McCain, was then the commander of all American
forces in Vietnam. But the young and gravely injured Navy pilot refused,
as the Code of Conduct clearly states that POWs should be released according to their date
of capture.
As a POW, McCain was the epitome of what Ernest Hemingway
called "grace under pressure."
To learn more about John
McCain's service and sacrifice in the Vietnam War, I suggest that readers pick up John McCain’s Faith of My Fathers and Robert Timberg’s The Nightingale's Song.
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