“One more thing. True heroes, through war or not, do not proclaim themselves as such or have operatives do it for them but live out their lives in quiet and selfless humble dignity as befits their status as genuine heroes.”
Thank you! This needed to be said. My Uncle is a Retired Colonel who served in Vitenam. He was award the Silver Star for bravery when his actions saved the lives of others. NOT ONCE has he ever spoke of his actions there. Humility, it’s a powerful character attribute.
Thank you for recognizing this important aspect. My father was a combat engineer and squad leader in Patton’s Third Army and was in four major battles in the European Theater. My brother is a combat wounded, decorated Vietnam War vwteran who did two tours of duty in Vietnam and was present during the Tet Offensive. Yet they have never discussed their records or exploits or claimed some status as a war hero. In my neighboorhood, I was surrounded by combat veterans of WWII including my next door neighboor who lost his leg to a German land mine and was handicapped for life as was my uncle, shot in the back by a Nazi sniper in the liberation of Belgium, and another neighbor who suffered at the hands of the Japanese. Were these men heroes? Of course. However, to a man none of them ever called themselves that but rather referred to the buddies they left behind that gave their lives to win that war as the true heroes.
John McCain’s suffering and perseverance cannot and should not be denied and pictures of him in captivity and despair are heartbreaking. Yet his inexplicable support for the left’s opposition to legal, humane, and effective methods of interrogating TERRORISTS for information puts our combat soldiers in lethal warzones against these mass murderers, in grave and unnecessary danger. Furthermore, when McCain compared our current interrogation methods, vastly less severe than those used in WWII and Vietnam as comparable to the reign of torture and horror committed by the Khmer Rogue under Pol Pot, he not only dooms our war effort but gives our enemies a justification for their bloody jihad against us.
Finally, the fact that John McCain cannot and will not secure the borders of this nation but instead lobbies for wide open, vulnerable borders especially during a global war on terrorists shows that McCain, despite his war record, has no idea in hell what he is doing as his bizarre, insane, and suicidal national security policies clearly demonstrate.