“No, a hero saves someone’s life, or kills a bunch of the enemy or something...just because someone gets captured does NOT make him a hero in my book.”
The heroism isn’t being captured. It is being willing to go and fly behind enemy lines, knowing death and/or torture awaits if you are shot down - and being shot down is not something you control. It is also in enduring as much pain as you can before you break.
When an Lt, I met a few Colonels who had been POWs in Vietnam. They said “WHEN you break, not IF”.
And someone can think Cruz and others are better than Trump without being GOP-E. This insistence that anyone who doesn’t agree with you 100% - even if they agree 95% - is an enemy is ridiculous.
If the choice comes down to Jeb or Hillary, I’ll vote for Jeb. Don’t like him. Don’t want him. Will give to other candidates - Cruz being the most likely right now - but I won’t sit out an election that has Hillary in it!
See #12