[Above My Pay Grade]

Not a McCain fan but “merely doing one’s duty” when doing that duty means enduring immense suffering, rather than taking the easy way out is a form of heroism.

Of course it might not be quite as heroic as avoiding service with 5 deferments.

[grania]

McCain's following orders and refusing release is serving ones country to the extreme, for sure.

But it doesn't excuse that today he's the primary advocate of wars that have caused so much harm to so many, perhaps irreparable to civilization. I'd think a person who endured what he endured would not be advocating for the monster we've created in the Middle East.