I just visited the Flight museum in Seattle this weekend.
There was this exhibit of the “Red Baron”, the greatest combat pilot who ever lived. He shot down 80 enemy fighter planes! McCain shot down ZERO enemy planes. The Red Baron was never captured. McCain was captured on his first or second combat mission.
Yeah I would say Red Baron was a hero, McCain was son of an Admiral in the Navy, and graduated at exact bottom of his class in the war college.
I have been very interested in the Red Baron for years. What amazes me, and I never realized because of his legend, he was only Twenty five years old when he died.