[calcowgirl]

NO that is not why, it is because he was given an out, one that even Bud Day said he could have taken, but refused the chance to come home early. You really think Kerry would have refused that offer.

You realize that there was an official Code of Conduct for the release of POWs, don't you? They got released in the order of capture. To have accepted the release offered by the VC would have been a direct violation of ORDERS. McCain followed orders--as did hundreds of others.

[mware]

Yes he followed orders as did so many other POW's. It does not make what he and the rest of those men suffered any less honorable.

Especially when he was being compared to Kerry who while they were being tortured and earning real purple hearts, was in Paris negotiation with North Vietnam.

[Alia]

My dad was a POW twice during WWII.

They got released in the order of capture.

Not necessarily true.