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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
He could have said "I like people who didn't destroy their own aircraft carrier" as well. Maybe he's warming up to that.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_U...#Investigation
I worked with a guy years ago he was a sailor who was in that fire on the USS Forrestal if that is the aircraft carrier you are referring to ...
Trump is a pompous ass:
John McCain comes from a military family and he volunteered to serve as a UASF pilot. I don't think his actions bombing North Vietnam were courageous or heroic at all. McCain getting captured was unfortunate. On that single issue Trump may be right -- I never considered McCain a war hero either. McCain got sucked into the military aggression of the United States in the Vietnam War --8,744,000 GIs served and 58,220 GIs died. McCain did not die and followed the military code of conduct as a POW -- nothing more -- a lot of GIs did the same -- even though their country betrayed them they did not return the favor. "My country do or die" was a popular expression of that era and John McCain lived up to that call ... He's not to be disrespected for that nor given a medal for it. He did what he thought was the right thing to do -- we all did that...