I think McCain’s POW experience gets too much ink from both ends, from those who view it as a great heroic feat of survival, and those who claim he was not the model American POW.
It’s something to be mentioned, but it just doesn’t have a lot of relevance to who would or would not make a good president. Almost 600 Vietnam POWs returned home, so if that experience should be constantly brought up, then let’s honor all the POws from that era.
But since it’s constantly brought up, there is a logical question of whether that long and brutal experience made him more or less psychologically suited to be president?
I’ve been told that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
In the case of John McCain and thers held in captivity as POW’s, tortured beyond belief. I salute them for their tolerance and faith to America.
There must have been some real dark days for these guys, but they kept the faith.
Sure they all broke. But who sitting on this side of the fence wouldn’t have also broken.
The Crypto-Marxist Left Will make a lot of this, just as they took Bush to task over his service.
They will even manufacture lies just as they did with Bush. Personally I believe that McCain is strong and has the expirence well above and beyond anything Barack ahs been able to come up with.
That is why I have called upon those ex-POW’s to stand up for him.
One of my life experiences was to meet and become a friend of a gentleman that was captured at Corregidor. He told me a few of his experiences including being on one of the Hell ships to Japan and working in a lead mine until the war ended. I asked him abou the beatings and he just told me that they were brutal. His last comment to me was. I lived through the worst humanity could hand me and I survived to live. Seymour passed away in 1999 at 81 years of age.