You don't become a hero by getting captured by the enemy.
You become a hero by capturing the enemy and making them your prisoners.
With all due respect, McCain fought for our country...and admirably. Trump should have focused his fire on Kerry and Gore (who also “fought” in Vietnam). I understand his need to bash McCain, but this was beneath him.
He suffered a LOT under the torture of his captors. He stayed alive. He might have never been the same after that, but to say he isn’t a hero, is bunk.
As someone said earlier, until Trump goes through the torture McCain suffered, he should shut his pie hole.
I think Patton said “I’m not asking you to die for your country, I’m asking you to make the other dumb bastard die for his”.
Or something like that.
Good point
On his twenty-third bombing mission in October 1967, he was shot down over Hanoi and badly injured. He subsequently endured five and a half years as a prisoner of war, including periods of torture. In 1968, he refused a North Vietnamese offer of early release, because it would have meant leaving before other prisoners who had been held longer. He was released in 1973 after the Paris Peace Accords.
That is a Hero. Great Politician that I agree with maybe not. Hero yes.
And for your information, throughout military history many great warriors were captured and honored by their enemies for having fought so bravely.
I have never as a WWII overseas veteran whose brother was killed fighting on Okinawa believed that McCain in any way was more of a hero than any soldier/marine/sailors who fought the battles, especially in hand to hand fighting.