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To: Dr. Franklin

<>The first able bodied man to leave the Forrestal after the fire for his own safety.<>

You are an effin’ liar.


14 posted on 10/10/2023 3:49:28 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie
You are an effin’ liar.

Calling people names doesn't change the facts, and facts are stubborn things:

"McCain’s actions after the fire show a determination to exit the ship as quickly as possible. When New York Times reporter Apple finished gathering his notes on the fire, McCain boarded a helicopter with him and flew to Saigon. Given that fires still burned on the ship and some of his fellow airmen were gravely wounded and dying, McCain’s assertion that he left the carrier for “some welcome R&R” in Saigon has a surreal air. Apple, now dead, said nothing in his news reports about inviting McCain to leave the ship, although he did report talking to him in Saigon later that day. McCain does not mention receiving permission to leave the still-burning ship. Merv Rowland, a commander and chief engineering officer of the Forrestal at the time of the fire, told me that he had not known that McCain left the ship within 30 hours of the fire and that he found this “extraordinary.” Rowland added that only the severely wounded were allowed to leave the ship and that no one, as far as he knew, would have been given permission to fly to Saigon for R&R. McCain’s quick flight off the Forrestal meant that he missed the memorial service for his dead comrades held the following day in the South China Sea.
Not long after McCain left, the Forrestal set off without him on its somber voyage to Subic Bay in the Philippines, where it would undergo initial repairs. He rejoined the ship a week later when it was docked at Subic Bay. There he gave an official statement and asked for a transfer to the aircraft carrier Oriskany."
Investigating John McCain’s Tragedy at Sea
15 posted on 10/10/2023 4:03:34 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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