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Liz Peek: Mr. Trump, make a magnanimous gesture and award McCain the Medal of Honor
Fox News ^ | Liz Peek

Posted on 08/29/2018 6:10:08 PM PDT by B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

President Trump should award John McCain, who died on Saturday, the Medal of Honor. The posthumous award would recognize the senator’s extraordinary heroism during his five years of captivity in North Vietnam, when he was tortured mercilessly, leaving him disabled for life. The compassionate and respectful gesture might also help to heal some deep wounds in the Republican Party. McCain was a Navy fighter pilot when his plane was shot down on a mission over the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi in 1967. He fractured both arms and one leg when he was ejected from his jet and nearly drowned when he parachuted into a lake. North Vietnamese pulled the badly injured McCain from the lake and attacked him. One bayonetted him and crushed his shoulder with a rifle butt.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: funerally; jameshensley; johnmccain; keatingfive; mccain; medalofhonor; moh; songbird; strawberries; yougottabekidding
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To: dowcaet

And don’t forget the Cruise line Conservatives who are taking a major hit because nobody wants to listen to their BS anymore.


61 posted on 08/29/2018 6:30:37 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (GOP- 65 House and 12 Senate seat pickups in November)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

Sorry, Lizzy.

That’s only for REAL heroes.


62 posted on 08/29/2018 6:30:48 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

OH HELL NO!!!!!!!!


63 posted on 08/29/2018 6:31:33 PM PDT by Ronin (Blackface or bolt-ons, it's the same fraud. - Norm Lenhart)
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To: clintonh8r

Not Fonda john


64 posted on 08/29/2018 6:31:36 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

Just ask any of these phony McCain worshippers if they voted for him in 2008. They hated him then. The only reason they pretend to like him now is because he was a RINO who hated Trump.


65 posted on 08/29/2018 6:33:04 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

NOT NO BUT HELL NO!!! This ASSHAT may have lived his life in his VERY EARLY days as an OK guy HOWEVER most of his life was lived as an arrogant, selfish, vindictive, mean nasty, CORRUPT, LYING, human being!!!!


66 posted on 08/29/2018 6:33:43 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: tennmountainman

Hey, I’ve got a nice shiny garbage can lid just laying around doing nothing around here. How about pinning that on the decomposing bunch of cells once comprising McCain?


67 posted on 08/29/2018 6:34:20 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Believe he received the Silver Star (3rd highest medal) for his POW actions as well as several Purple Hearts. Apparently that was sufficient for the Navy who recommends all awards.


68 posted on 08/29/2018 6:34:37 PM PDT by NavyCaptain (NavyCaptain)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle
The posthumous award would recognize the senator’s extraordinary heroism during his five years of captivity in North Vietnam...

Liz... Liz...

The problem with your idea is that Admiral James Stockdale, who was the senior officer at the Hanoi Hilton and who was there for 7 and half years of torture, and who organized the camp resistance movement, was already awarded the Medal of Honor for his time there.

Giving this award to John McCain for simply being there diminishes the significance of the medal that was awarded to Adm. Stockdale.

-PJ

69 posted on 08/29/2018 6:35:35 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

For what, exactly?


70 posted on 08/29/2018 6:36:37 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (I work for DHS. Not ashamed of it.)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

Let their future President do it.


71 posted on 08/29/2018 6:36:55 PM PDT by dgbrown
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72 posted on 08/29/2018 6:37:23 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: Spruce
He might qualify for the Huân chương Hồ Chí Minh (Order of Ho Chi Minh).
73 posted on 08/29/2018 6:37:43 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: Spruce
He might qualify for the Huân chương Hồ Chí Minh (Order of Ho Chi Minh).
74 posted on 08/29/2018 6:37:46 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

MOH, for what, getting shot down??

Should every POW get one?

McInsane should have been in prison for his banking crimes with the Keating 5.


75 posted on 08/29/2018 6:39:03 PM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle; All

He’s tweeting from hell:
https://twitter.com/SinJohnMcCain/status/1034180693931319298


76 posted on 08/29/2018 6:39:33 PM PDT by toldyou (Even if the voices aren't real, they have some pretty good ideas.)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

What do these chooches think a MOH is?
Some crackerjack like a Nobel Peace Prize?

Lets hear what these guys say, after they update their web site to offer condolences

http://www.uss-forrestal.com


77 posted on 08/29/2018 6:40:18 PM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

You don’t get the MOH for being shot down and captured.


78 posted on 08/29/2018 6:40:40 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Democratic socialism is when the majority of people vote to steal your property.)
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To: B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle

It is time for the gloves to come off re: McCain!

Perhaps a group like the Swift Boat Vets for Truth will pop up and tell the REAL TRUTH about POW McCain!

The spotlight of truth needs to be shined on him!


79 posted on 08/29/2018 6:41:23 PM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: TruthFactor

Your comment just made me realize that the Navy Cemetary could
sell McCain Memorial Piss Cups.
And make a ton of money.


80 posted on 08/29/2018 6:42:41 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Trust Sessions" Yeah Right)
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