[buckeyesailor]

What is your source? Please read "Sailors to the end" by Gregory A. Freeman for the facts! McCain was sitting in his plane on the flight line waiting to take off when his plane was the first plane to be hit by the mis-fired rocket that started the whole Forestal disaster. McCain was lucky to survive. All that before being captured. Were you there? Unless you there, STFU.

[John D]

No I wasn't, were you? The way I heard it told was that as soon as he got out of the plane he took off, not trying to help put out the fire. Then they got him out of his room at the other end of the ship and got him off the ship on a helicopter. We will probably never know for sure though because just like another self-proclamed navy hero with the same first name he will not release his navy records.

[Albert Barr]

more than that, the book says McCain helped in throwing ordinance overboard. Ordinance that could have gone off in the fire. I don' think there was a person on the Forrestal that "hid in their cabin", give me a break!