Vidal is a hateful old queen, but don’t even bother with his Barry BS. Here is a video of Bud Day discussing John McCain’s time in the Hanoi Hilton.
http://cameron.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/05/08/colonel-bud-day-on-john-mccain/
You know it is odd that I have never come across any other written statements about McCain or Day’s stays in that POW camp other than what was written by the two of them.
I went actively looking one night but then I am not a super internet sleuth so I may have missed something quite important.