I'd like to ask you all a semi-related question. I've always thought of people who served in the military as heroes, those who served in war even more so, and those who have been POWs as an even more special kind of hero.
Would you all agree with that or find it naive?
@LauraTXNM A bit naïve I think. Many people have served this country in uniform and some paid a heavy price for their service but in the case of John Sidney McCain III you need to look at the entire picture before you decide to call him a "hero".
He is the Grandson of John Sidney "Slew" McCain Sr. who was a Navy Admiral wit very distinguished service for a long time including in the South Pacific during WWII. and the Son of John Sidney "Jack" McCain Jr. also an Admiral with long and distinguished service and who was the CO of the Naval forces in the Pacific when his son John Sidney McCain III was captured. But for those facts, Senator McCain would never have received an appointment to the Naval Academy at Annapolis and, on the off chance that he did receive one, would have surely not made it to graduation.
Further, after he did manage to scrape by and graduate at the bottom of his class he got into flight school on the basis of who he was rather than what his qualifications were and would never have been in the pilot seat of the F4-E he flew over Hanoi but for who his father and grandfather were.
After he was returned to the US Navy Brass decided that it would be too embarrassing to the Navy and the US Government for Mr. McCain to have to account for what he did while a captive in North Vietnam and the entire history was official "revised".
I know that some here will not like what I have written here but it IS the truth and you will have to make up your own mind as to whether or not the man is a "hero".
