Posted on 09/02/2018 12:34:15 PM PDT by dustoff339
Fellow Freepers,
In all of the hoopla and bs surrounding the "final farewell" for McCain, one person seems to be significantly absent in it all.
That person in the original Mrs. John S. McCain: Carol McCain. For those who do not know, she was married to McCain when he was shot down over Vietnam. Prior to his deployment, Carol McCain was, by all accounts, quite a beauty. She was a 5' 7" tall, a successful swimsuit model, and the mother of three children (one by McCain, and two by an earlier marriage that McCain adopted). While McCain was a POW, she had an automobile accident that wrecked havoc on her body: she ended up at 5'3" tall due to the massive damage to her pelvis and her legs. She also gained some weight as a result.
McCain came back, saw this physically broken woman that was waiting for him, and promptly started running around (according to numerous accounts of his life, it was "well known" that John had numerous girlfriends during this time period). While still on active duty as an 0-6 Captain in the US Navy, he met Cindy Hensley (17 years his junior, and from a very wealthy family in Arizona), started dating her (while still married to Carol), and even filed for a marriage license with Cindy while still married to Carol!!! The rest is history.
None of this is new information...it has been out there in public records forever.
If I (as a former officer in the US Army) had done something like that, I would have been court-martialed for adultery and conduct unbecoming an officer! But....my daddy was a medically retired E-7, not a full admiral like his daddy and granddaddy.
My point is this...we all know why the MSM and the left are lionizing this adulterer and liar: it gives them yet another public forum to vent their anti-Trump rage.
McCain destroyed his original family to stroke his ego. That is much like the stories from some of the other POW's calling him Songbird: allegedly, he "sung" to his captors, betraying his country and thereby destroying the lives of other Americans to save his own life.
Good riddance to bad rubbish, in my opinion.
(PS: I think this is my first post in 10 or 12 years (although I read FR daily), so if I have done soemthing wrong, please let the admins feel free to delete it. It just really bugs me to see this circus happen without even a slight mention of the woman who stood by him while he was a POW.)
You’re very welcome.
That story is not true.
USS Forrestal tragedy has been thoroughly investigated.
His first wife also worked tirelessly for the POW cause. I believed she remarried and do not know if she endorsed him or not in 2008.
She never remarried.
Had a Coworker lower flags without my knowledge last Tuesday, I left them down at half mast for the USS. Forestall.
And they like to pretend that Meghan is his only daughter.
“Who was Jeremiah Denton ???”
One classy dude who minded his own business and did not embellish his military career like McStain did.
Cindy McCain is Meghans mother.
Has the first one ever voted for him?
Please don’t wait 10 more years to post. This was very well written. Thank you.
I knew a number of them too. Chuck Cherry is the most glaring. He came home and she had pissed away of dollar of his pay. Her first words were, “I want divorce”.
Absolutely correct!
+101
AMEN!
Ya done good.
Thank you.
Real life testimony of events are the best. Unfiltered perspective.
Great post, and you highlighted just one of McCain’s notorious examples of his bitter entitlement character flaw. He was hand carried through his career based solely on his military heritage and bratted his way through young adulthood into the political image he became.
He was a lousy cadet
He was a lousy officer
He was a lousy pilot
He was a lousy husband
He was a lousy senator
The man was a first degree louse and a bitter, contemptible one at that.
Thanks for posting Dustoff.
Same Navy Patriot,same.
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