I stand corrected, Kevin. He’s still a RAT-loving POS, IMHO.
Since FR does not offer an edit feature for our postings, I’ll do my corrected repost here:
“..When the pack of low-life, slimly RATs suck up to a POS like this, it speaks VOLUMES of what he really was.
The real heros were the ones that died trying to put out the fire to save the USS Forestal....”
Apparently McCain resorted to his true self in the immediate aftermath, though. Once escaping his plane he watched the proceedings in a safe place on closed-circuit TV rather than helping. He was also quickly airlifted off the ship to the exclusion of others before the fire was out and all the dead had been recovered, presumably because of the status of his father and grandfather. McCain was a guy who whenever given the chance to do the right thing did the wrong thing. He was despicable and this lionization of him among certain circles is sickening.