I didn't know much about Macain's war exploits only that he was a prisoner and that Trump called him, 'not a war hero'. Even though he was downed while delivering bombs, and Trump couldn't serve because he had a sore foot.

After reading his obituary in the NYT, he comes across very much as a war hero to me when he was offered early release but refused...

“I knew that every prisoner the Vietnamese tried to break, those who had arrived before me and those who would come after me, would be taunted with the story of how an admiral’s son had gone home early, a lucky beneficiary of America’s class-conscious society,” Sen. McCain recalled. “I knew that my release would add to the suffering of men who were already straining to keep faith with their country.”

I now have a much better understanding why Macain was so disgusted with Trump's disrespect for the institutions of the office of the President.

@eegore, sure.

btw, that was a WP obituary, not nyt...

https://tinyurl.com/mcainobituary

faffi wrote on 08/26/18 at 12:33:20:


It's apparent that today integrity has little to do with becoming president ..