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Shattuck: Cancer doesn’t know what it’s up against in battle with maverick
The Boston Herald ^ | 07-20-17 | Tom Shattuck

Posted on 07/20/2017 3:19:34 AM PDT by calvincaspian

His North Vietnamese captors told him he’d never go home.

They beat and tortured him to no end, but the Navy flyer’s patriotism manifested itself in historic defiance, refusing to do the easy thing for his own reward.

He would not accept freedom before other prisoners who’d been there longer than he: It wasn’t the right thing to do, he thought.

Instead, he gave the enemy hell.

Now he has brain cancer.

And he’s 80 years old.

It’s the appropriate time to loudly honor this war hero for his toughness and resolve in combat and captivity, but subsequently during his political career.

He has shown an integrity and individualism that goes unduplicated in modern politics.

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: degenerateoldman; mccain; rino; trump; vietnam
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To: Toespi
I have had three people I am close to die of Glioblasts. Each were excessive, heavy drinkers of diet soda which contains aspartame. Aspartame has been a suspect in brain cancer for years.

Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2006;15(9). September 2006 says there is no association and a possible protective effect on esophageal cancer

101 posted on 07/20/2017 7:13:05 AM PDT by stig
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To: ScottinVA

Did Admiral Denton feel that way?


102 posted on 07/20/2017 7:15:29 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: calvincaspian

“The cruelest enemy could not break him.”

I assume she’s talking about the North Vietnamese. They didn’t have to break a collaborator. McCain was never tortured by the North Vietnamese.

He and John Kerry are abandoned our POWs.

I don’t wish any ill will on Kerry - leave it to God. But, remove him from office. If it takes death from cancer for that to happen, so be it. I hope he seeks forgiveness soon.


103 posted on 07/20/2017 7:34:04 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: jacknhoo

I don’t wish any ill will on McCain...it is supposed to read.


104 posted on 07/20/2017 7:35:25 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Drew68

The same was said 2 years ago when they announced 90 year old Jimmy Carter also had brain cancer and had just weeks to live.

Just last week, he was building another Habitat home, but collapsed do to the overwork.

Perhaps soon he may need to slow down.


105 posted on 07/20/2017 7:37:39 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: leaning conservative; Tax-chick
I have a question for you Christians:

Or to put it another way, go back in time almost 50 years and find yourself in the jungles of Viet Nam. You're on patrol, and suddenly the guy in front of you gets hit in the face with an AK round tearing off part of his lower jaw. He drops, and you drop and there's incoming fire. Now for the multiple choice question. You do which of the following:

  1. You try to figure out where the fire is coming from and return fire and hope you or one of your buddies manages to hit and kill the bastards who are shooting at you .
  2. You lie down and hope that the VC/NVA who are shooting at you don't get hurt and if they do they quickly recover while fondling your Jane Fonda autograph
I asked this question and you didn't answer it before. It's an easy question answer A or B. How about an answer now?
106 posted on 07/20/2017 7:53:34 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Responsibility2nd
The same was said 2 years ago when they announced 90 year old Jimmy Carter also had brain cancer and had just weeks to live.

President Carter didn't have glioblastoma (GBM) as Senator McCain does. It's one of the most aggressive types of cancer out there. Carter had melanoma that spread to his liver and brain in very small lesions that were removed.

107 posted on 07/20/2017 7:53:49 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: from occupied ga

Hopefully Kelli Ward gets his seat. The sooner the better.


108 posted on 07/20/2017 7:57:09 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: from occupied ga

Seek help immediately for your obvious mental problems. The day’s still young, go for it!


109 posted on 07/20/2017 7:59:47 AM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: calvincaspian
Yesterday, his daughter Meghan released a statement reading, “The cruelest enemy could not break him. The aggression of political life could not bend him. So he is meeting this challenge as he has every other.”

He was one of the Keating Five, and he more or less abandoned Sarah Palin when the tough got going for her- even if he was the one who propelled her to prominence.

Of course, cancer is nasty foe, and I wish him the best.

110 posted on 07/20/2017 8:00:31 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: calvincaspian

Oh PLEASE! Age means something. He is NOT immortal. You always hear this with famous people in their 80’s-90’s. Full recovery expected...as if they can live another 40 years. They can’t, they won’t. Being famous, or ‘beloved’ means nothing. The man has been brain damaged for years-now his brain is cancerous-and he’s 80!! Possible, but unlikely, he’ll get more time but old ‘maverick’ is heading for the last roundup.


111 posted on 07/20/2017 8:13:15 AM PDT by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: Kalamata

Yeah like installing his daughter megan.


112 posted on 07/20/2017 8:52:46 AM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: leaning conservative
Seek help immediately for your obvious mental problems. The day’s still young, go for it!

Your posts reek of sanctimony and hypocrisy. You love McCain - an enemy of everything American, but you insult me because I point that out. You smarmy sanctimonious hypocrites usually show your true colors when pressed, and BTW Why won't you answer the question? Too hard for you or are you too afraid it will show you for what you are.

113 posted on 07/20/2017 9:21:44 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: from occupied ga

It doesn’t bother me in the slightest that your point of view and mine are different. It seems to disturb you to the point of repetitive unanalogous hypotheticals. “What if we were in the jungle of Vietnam, etc.” Well, we’re not, end of discussion.

Have a nice day.


114 posted on 07/20/2017 10:46:40 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Everybody loves to talk about 'values' because there is no math involved.")
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To: Captain Peter Blood
Did Admiral Denton feel that way?

I haven't seen any evidence he didn't. Have you?

115 posted on 07/20/2017 11:22:01 AM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberals, go find another country.)
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To: ScottinVA

Would have to do some research on this. I think Denton was the senior ranking POW. I am not sure what he said or did not say.


116 posted on 07/20/2017 12:07:34 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: ScottinVA

Dude - I worked very closely with one of the Vietnam POWs, and was in the company of many of them (at least the USN types) in the late 70s. Those that I knew best stuck tightly together and would never say a bad word about a fellow POW to an ‘outsider’ because, after all was said and done, how could anyone who didn’t have that experience understand what they went through? Yes, many of us went through a classified school which was supposed to introduce us to the ‘POW experience’ but, as my closest POW associate put it, “How can you learn UTTER DESPAIR in a one-week class?”

He has since passed, and our great country is lessened without him. I refuse to convict ANY one of those gentlemen based on anything said by anyone who wasn’t there. I personally saw the aftermath of the injuries inflicted by the torture administered by their North Vietnamese jailers. I broke bread with some of them (POWs) in later, happier times. Some are more broken than others, but they are, to a man, great Americans.


117 posted on 07/20/2017 5:36:27 PM PDT by tgusa (gun control: hitting your target.)
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To: tgusa

Excellent & very informative post. Thanks.


118 posted on 07/20/2017 6:47:55 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: tgusa

Yep; I too interacted with many former POWs who served as Resistance Training instructors at the Air Force Survival School. I have interacted and interviewed these great men and I agree, the brotherhood that exists between them is necessarily insular and, to an outsider, impenetrable.

That’s why I regard the words of those who disparage the behavior of those who endured years of torture as mere bunk. If you weren’t there.. you don’t know.


119 posted on 07/20/2017 7:59:37 PM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberals, go find another country.)
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To: ScottinVA

Amen, brother!


120 posted on 07/21/2017 5:16:58 AM PDT by tgusa (gun control: hitting your target.)
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