Silverleaf, really. McCain bore no responsibility that day. None. He just happened to be in that plane at that time. The Navy’s report is accurate. The investigation was very thorough, lots of witnesses giving sworn testimony.
Just stop with that, please. It simply isn’t valid, true or even deserved.
I despise McCain and his politics, I don’t know what to think of his time in Hanoi other than what has been publicly told, so I won’t criticize him for that. And I admire his father and Grandfather who were both capable men, even if his grandfather had to take the fall for the second typhoon off Okinawa in 1945. He willingly and knowingly fell on his sword for his good friend Halsey, and I respect that.
So, go after McCain with everything else you have, I’ll be alongside of you. But on this, we cannot agree. Nothing personal, Silverleaf.
Did you read the report I posted.
Stop with the comments about navy reporting and facts.
Read the report. Read McCains own biography. Compare them.
Then get back to me.
Or not.
At the very very least it rings strong bullshit alarm bells that a jr officer would leave his ship and go on R&R while it was still burning.
The only man on the Forrestal to do so.
No officer I know would see that as normal behavior.
And a lot of discussion these days is trying to figure out McCains abnormal behavior