..."and then,and then,we went to the Hanoi I-Hop"
Posted on 11/17/2008 12:47:12 PM PST by lizol
I shot down McCain
A retired Red Army Lieutenant who fought in Vietnam has confessed to shooting down the plane of defeated presidential candidate, John McCain. Colonel Yuriy Trushechkin told Russia’s Moskovsky Komsomolets he had no regrets about downing the future Senator’s aircraft back in 1967.
Journalists from Russia’s most popular tabloid paper found the veteran in a St Petersburg hospital.
Trushechkin said he still hated John McCain and wasn’t at all sorry for what he had done all those years ago. He added he was very happy that McCain didn’t make to the White House.
”He always hated the Russians. He knew that it was our rocket that downed his plane,” Trushechkin said.
The veteran makes no secret of Soviet involvement in the Vietnam War. He was 28 years old when he came to the Asian country to fight against the U.S. together with local soldiers. He served as an officer in missile guidance for the communist North Vietnamese.
Trushechkin remembers the day he shot down McCain. The air alarm sounded, he said, and everybody saw two Phantom F-4 planes approaching.
“One of the aircraft was trying to skirt the nearby hills, while the other went straight through the bridge. We fired at the second one," Trushechkin said.
Two rockets were fired. The first exploded in the jungle but the second hit the target. The American pilot catapulted and was later captured by the North Vietnamese troops. The documents said it was John McCain.
Yuriy Trushechkin said that McCain got lucky because ejected U.S. pilots were usually beaten to death with pickaxes.
But McCain avoided execution and was sent to a prison, known as the Hanoi Hilton.
The most valuable trophies were the pilots helmet and the so-called “almsman’s flag” – a harsh mark which said that the U.S. citizen was in trouble and needed help in five languages. Trushechkin took McCain’s documents with him and some photos made after he was captured. But the documents were later lost.
Yuriy Trushechkin said he recognised McCain when he was watching a programme about the U.S. elections, which showed the pictures of a young Mccain in military uniform.
McCain spent 1,967 days (five and a half years) in Vietnamese prisons before being released on March 15, 1973 - just after the signing of the Paris Peace treaty between the U.S. and Vietnam.
McCain flew A4 Skyhawks, not Phantoms.
whatever
Trushechkin remembers the day he shot down McCain. The air alarm sounded, he said, and everybody saw two Phantom F-4 planes approaching.
It was pointed out then that McCain flew an A-4 Skyhawk
Okay, the first problem: McCain flew an A-4 did he not?
Nice story, but McCain was flying an A-4 Skyhawk when he was shot down.
I thought McCain shot down McCain.
I clicked on the link expecting to read an explanation and apology from Senator McCain’s campaign manager.
Beat me to it.
But he did not shoot the deputy.
Dear Colonel Yuriy Trushechkin,
You are as unprofessional a soldier as their can be.
Eat shit and die.
Cordially,
Mr. Jazzy
Another drunken Russkie trying to back his ass into history.
I Shot The Sherrif - lyrics
I shot the sheriff, but I didn’t shoot no deputy
Oh, no, oh
I shot the sheriff, but I didn’t shoot no deputy
Ooh, ooh, ooh Yeah
All around in my hometown
They’re tryin’ to track me down, yeah
They say they want to bring me in guilty
For the killing of a deputy, for the life of a deputy
But I say, oh, now, now...
Oh, I shot the sheriff, but I swear it was in self defense
Ooh, ooh, ooh
I said, I shot the sheriff, Oh Lord
And they say it is a capital offense
Ooh, ooh, oohHear this
Sheriff John Brown always hated me
For what I don’t know
Ev’ry time I plant a seed
He said, “Kill it before it grows.”
He said, “Kill them before they grow.”
And so, oh, now, now,
Read it in the news
I shot the sheriff, but I swear it was in self defense
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Where was the deputy?
I said I shot the sheriff but I swear it was in self defense
Freedom came my way one day
And I started out of town, yeah!
All of a sudden I saw Sheriff John Brown
Aiming to shoot me down
So I shot, I shot, I shot him down
And I say, if I am guilty I will pay
I shot the sheriff, but I say, but I didn’t shoot no deputy
Ooh, no, oh
I shot the sheriff, but I didn’t shoot no deputy
Ooo, ooo, ooh
Reflexes had the better of me
And what is to be must be
Ev’ry day the bucket a-go-a well
One day the bottom a-go drop out
One day the bottom a-go drop out
I say, I, I, ...
I, I shot the sheriff, but I didn’t shoot the deputy, no
(Repeat)
But...but...the VVAW and other NVA flag waving groups were denying that all through the 70s. You mean the "anti-war" cells were lying?
..."and then,and then,we went to the Hanoi I-Hop"
DITTO!!!
No good fighter pilot goes into battle with hatred in his heart, not if he desires to be effective, and thus survive the fight. In combat, hatred of the enemy will not defeat the enemy, but will rather defeat the one who hates.
So when’s the book coming out??? Oliver Stoned wants the movie rights, right???
Lets have pitty on this particular gook...he knows not what he says and can only comprehend what his masters tell him to say....even if false.
I am proud of Senator John McCain, he survived much more than any man can claim....and still lives to spread the word of FREEDOM.
That was this year. The article is referring to his 1967 shoot down. ;-)
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