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To: IbJensen
Hell, anyone can be a prisoner of war, but some are willing to fight to the death to avoid capture

I don't like him either but that's absurd with all due respect. McCain was shot down, badly injured and captured the second he landed. He was brutalized for years in prison where others even died as a result of the treatment. He refused to come home when offered and stayed with his buddies.

Say what you want about his politics and mercurial nature but he paid his dues and walked the walk.

No question of that. Have you ever been locked up and tortured for years.

It was a Dumas like survival and should not be ridiculed. He and the others..

42 posted on 03/11/2009 9:32:23 AM PDT by wardaddy
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To: wardaddy
Say what you want about his politics and mercurial nature but he paid his dues and walked the walk. No question of that. Have you ever been locked up and tortured for years. It was a Dumas like survival and should not be ridiculed. He and the others..

It appears that one of the main effects of this past has been to make him too willing to be "friends" with just about anybody in the Senate or Congress, for any reason. He is no longer strong on the principles that our nation needs from a president, which go beyond the requirements for a hero aviator. His campaign was above his pay grade.

54 posted on 03/11/2009 10:42:41 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Praise and worship" is my alternate lifestyle.)
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To: wardaddy
Have you ever been locked up and tortured for years.

No, but I have a bayonet wound that runs completely across my abdominal area. The commie holding the rifle that had a bayonet affixed to it and did the damage is dead. I was able to kill him even with my guts hanging out.

I evaded capture in spite of the fact that I was severely wounded. I would have kept fighting until either many of those rats were dead or I was.

We were taught not to surrender but to fight. That's what we were sent there for!

56 posted on 03/11/2009 11:15:56 AM PDT by IbJensen (In 2008, Americans foolishly used their freedom to vote for “chains” not “change.”)
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