I voted for Palin - she’s a freakin bombshell
absolutely.
once Sarah was on board with Trump, I never looked back...
Posted on 08/29/2018 8:26:46 PM PDT by WyCoKsRepublican
McCain let political ambition destroy his character to the point that many of his former friends (and POW mates), no longer wanted anything to do with him.
That is his legacy.
What pissed off a lot of former POWs I know was that McCain and Kerry wrote off any further information requests/demands of the No. Vietnamese about known POWS and suspected captured MIAs when they signed the friendship agreement with Hanoi about 1995. This also possibly included the return of the remains of those they tortured to death (some were returned as died of illnesses, wounds, etc., when they were seen alive and reasonably well when the were captured and brought into the POW camps/prisons - Lt. Ron Dodge was on the cover of LIFE magazine, alive and well in NVA hands).
Lt. Col. Wilmer N (Newt) Grubb was one of those tortured/beaten to death by the No. Vietnamese and possibly attached Cuban interrogators. One article that talked a little about his fate is “8 Years After His Death in North Vietnam, an American POW is Laid to Rest in Arlington”, NY Times, James T. Wooten, April 5, 1974 (dateline April 4th) page One, Second Section and cont. on p. 60, column 1.
I’ve been involved, on and off for the past 47 years, with POW/MIA issues including a congressional testimony and an upcoming book next year.
Kerry and McCain sold out their fellow servicemen for political, and in the case of Kerry, also ideological reasons (three times - 3 fake wounds (3 Purple Hearts and he was out of Nam in less than 4 months); he got several of his Swiftboat’s men to lie about serving with him - they didn’t; and then the agreement with No. Vietnam).
John McCain tried to live up to the McCain name re Navy service (his grandfather and father were both combat Admirals from WW2 thru Vietnam) but he just wasn’t like them. If he had stayed as a flier, things might have been different and better for his own legacy of service, but what he has done over the years on the POW/MIA issue has blackened his reputation with those to whom it mattered most, his fellow naval aviators/crews/POWs and their families.
That is why a lot of people who should be at his funeral won’t be there. That is “The Shame and the Pity” of his life.
MM: Vietnam/Cambodia research journalist, Fall 1970.
Why all the vanities lately? Have I missed something?
I’m sure he’ll be well enough to vote for a Democrat come November. Probably already has his ballot filled out. And maybe a couple extra.
Trump he fought with, but this with Palin really shows he was as low as they come.
Thanks for this!
This isn't my vanity thread. This thread was posted by "WyCoKsRepublican", so you should direct your question to them. I haven't posted any of these vanity threads you've seen recently, (or any other threads for that matter). I just post replies to posts I find interesting on various threads.
I voted for Palin - she’s a freakin bombshell
When he was in the Navy, he steamed over his tow line after looking for the missing strawberries.
> for inviting Trump to his funeral.
That’s okay, Trump will celebrate in private.
Isn’t almost every posting on this site a vanity (i.e. person opinion, commentary or observation)?
I love your idea of making a donation to Trumps 2020 campaign on his name.
When I get to that point, I hope I'm not such a petty, bitter person that I spend my last days on earth coming up with a list of names of people who I don't think are worthy of attending my funeral.
No, not usually. They are discouraged.
Joe Biden can carry McPain into hell.
On FR, a vanity is a thread posted (like this one), which is clearly marked in the title with the word "vanity", and it applies to threads posted from the thoughts of the initial thread poster, not from some magazine article, or web site article, or video, or some other source beyond just the thoughts of that thread's initial poster. Is that what you were referring to when you posted "Why all the vanities lately?" to me, even though I was not the initial poster of this vanity thread, or any other vanity thread? Or did you have something else in mind when you used that "vanity" term? I'm really curious to know what you meant by that post.
Why should he change now?
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