Yes, perhaps you've heard of Admiral Stockdale:
"I consider it blasphemy to smudge the straight-arrow prisoner-of-war record of a man who was near death when he arrived at Hoa Loa prison 1967: both arms broken, left leg broken, left shoulder broken by a civilian with a rifle butt.
He was eventually taken to the same rat-infested hospital room I had occupied two years earlier, and, like me, he had surgery on his leg. By then the Vietnamese had discovered that his father was the ranking admiral in the Pacific Fleet, and he received an offer that, as far as I know, was made to no other American prisoner: immediate release, no strings attached. He refused, thereby sentencing himself to four more years in a cell.
There was a special cramped and hot privy-like structure in that Hanoi prison reserved for whichever American was causing the Vietnamese the most trouble. I was the first in the camp to be locked up in it, and I gave it the name Calcutta.
There was only room for one person at a time in the cage, and after a couple of months I was taken out and marched back to a regular cell. As I limped along, I sneaked a peek at my replacement: John McCain, hobbling along on his own bad leg."
Who are the 'fellow POWs' that besmirch John McCain. Do you have facts to back up that smear?
both arms broken, left leg broken, left shoulder broken by a civilian with a rifle butt.
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Let’s try it this way: Both arms were broken when he bailed out of his plane, left leg broken at the same time due to the manner in which he exited the plane, and left shoulder broken when he was captured.
The way it was written makes people believe all his injuries were the result of torture by his captors. Such was not the case....and McCain never corrected the error. If he is so lily white pure, why did he have his records sealed???????????????? Sounds incredibly like Obama, doesn’t it?
Do a simple search. They’re all over the place.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3314153/posts
From Admiral Stockdale’s book p.254:
There was little concern in any American’s mind about the possibility of the Vietnamese throwing anybody out to defame him; we now knew the Vietnamese well enough to be sure that any early releasee would have to buy his way out by groveling on his knees before the Communists, bad-mouthing America. I gave their new release program a name: FRP — the “Fink Release Program,” and that was the way it was to be known. I also issued an order that started on its way to the other cell blocks of Las Vegas and with subsequent movers to the camps elsewhere in the city and outside it: “No early release; we all go home together”.
I can only assume that, based on Stockdale’s statement, that IF McCain was offered an early release it was because McCain was guilty of trying to “...buy his way out by groveling on his knees before the Communists, bad-mouthing America.”