McCain’s arms were both broken from having them bound behind his back with figure eights of rope wrapped around the arms to the neck... and then he was suspended by those bound arms from the wrists to a hook in the ceiling ... and then the procedure was to leave pows hanging there until they could no longer scream or until they gave out, or until the arms became so dangerously black from lack of circulation that the pressure had to be left off... at which point the pain begins anew. This occurred over YEARS.
So hearing a bunch of internet jockeys who don’t know crap and who have been exceedingly lucky never to have undergone anything remotely like it for even one second of the idyllic lives and who would most likely be sniveling in front of the Iranians ... is disgusting and really beneath this site, no matter how we feel about McCain’s political behavior.
I hate McCain as a politician.
But I appreciate immensely what you are saying.
Hell on earth. Amazing any of them survived.
I loathe McCain as a politician. But Bud Day’s book says McCain was extremely brave while a POW. And since Bud Day was a Medal of Honor winner and a former cellmate...maybe he knew more than the Internet.
I read his entire, original, Newsweek interview from, I believe 1963 or 1964, and he never mentioned getting his arms broke.
He did mention that when they found out who his father was, the got really nice to him.
I agree. I hate McCain for his politics but I know I could not have stood what he went through as a POW.