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Originally Posted by SuckOnThis
Actually he gave up US intelligence info to the enemy to save his own skin....
"Demands for military information were accompanied by threats to terminate my medical treatment if I [McCain] did not cooperate. Eventually, I gave them my ship's name and squadron number, and confirmed that my target had been the power plant." Page 193-194, Faith of My Fathers by John McCain
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Dude... if you put the energy forward post the real link... shit i'll just copy it as well...
"McCain's "POW buddies" have spoken up for him at political events, but it is clear that, for them, the tales of his toughness and defiance through 5½ years in captivity are more than just campaign spin. They are real-life examples of heroism, described with a catch in their voices or tears in their eyes.
Orson Swindle, 71, a retired Marine lieutenant colonel who shared a cement pad with McCain at the infamous Hanoi Hilton prison, says McCain turned down a chance to go home because he believed that those captured before him should be freed first (consistent with the U.S. military's Code of Conduct's prohibition on accepting favors from the enemy). "He chose probably to die," says Swindle, who now lives in Alexandria, Va. "That, my friend, is character beyond what most of us can understand." George "Bud" Day, 83, recalls meeting McCain in 1967 when the future presidential candidate was in desperate shape, with two fractured arms and a broken knee, "filthy, sweating, feverish." "But John refused to die," adds Day, now a lawyer in Fort Walton Beach, Fla."
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That's what I'm talkin about... only a few posts left and I can link the real thing for ya