WNU Editor: I learned about John McCain's death at a sports bar/restaurant in Kingston, Ontario last night. And it was fitting that I learned about it with my two visiting cousins from Russia (ex-military .... albeit Soviet) and two followers of WNU who are ex-U.S. military who wanted to meet me on our short road-trip. Senator McCain's military career was (and is) incredible, and his passing away last night opened up my cousins to talk about their war experiences (in Afghanistan), as well as the Iraq experiences of my American friends. That is the legacy of the man. Not his political career and two failed Presidential bids .... which will be just footnotes in history. What he will be remembered for is his military career .... and more specifically his strength as a human being to survive five and a half years as a POW in a North Vietnamese prison camp. But for now .... in the coming days the politicians and the media will present a political narrative that is completely opposite to how they treated him when he was a political opponent. And when they are finished, they will forget about John McCain forever. But one thing that I learned last night is that soldiers will not forget who and what John McCain was .... for them John McCain will be remembered forever.
Sunday, August 26, 2018
Remembering John McCain
WNU Editor: I learned about John McCain's death at a sports bar/restaurant in Kingston, Ontario last night. And it was fitting that I learned about it with my two visiting cousins from Russia (ex-military .... albeit Soviet) and two followers of WNU who are ex-U.S. military who wanted to meet me on our short road-trip. Senator McCain's military career was (and is) incredible, and his passing away last night opened up my cousins to talk about their war experiences (in Afghanistan), as well as the Iraq experiences of my American friends. That is the legacy of the man. Not his political career and two failed Presidential bids .... which will be just footnotes in history. What he will be remembered for is his military career .... and more specifically his strength as a human being to survive five and a half years as a POW in a North Vietnamese prison camp. But for now .... in the coming days the politicians and the media will present a political narrative that is completely opposite to how they treated him when he was a political opponent. And when they are finished, they will forget about John McCain forever. But one thing that I learned last night is that soldiers will not forget who and what John McCain was .... for them John McCain will be remembered forever.
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That he made it through captivity relatively intact does speak well to him, but to be honest, the way he handled himself there seems unexceptional at best. Which is not to say that any particular heroics could be reasonably expected of a POW. But he had nothing on John Dramesi, who tried to escape twice and never broke under torture. Now that really is incredible. Unfortunately, Dramesi, who died last year, never had anything like the late John McCain's political career, though not for want of trying.
Wait what? Didn't McCain have the chance to be released from torture/prison early due to a deal made but decided to stay with his comrades? Now if I'm wrong fair enough, but if I remember right, that's kinda heroic
Hes a loser and war momgerer and should be remembered for killing of so many cillions over decades and us sailors on carrier when his rockets fired off oh he crahed 5 jets as well remember him for that and a terrorist supporter as well
dont jump on 3 typos made i know
It was actually standard for the pilots and expected of them. Mccain's father was the commander and that makes John exceptional in the eyes of media.
I don't need to jump on your typos, anon. Your comments, and typos, speak for themselves.
As for the cillions, as Mattis correctly says, some people need killing. If you ever were involved in Vietnam you would understand. If you weren't all you need do is a little reading on the subject of post Vietnam War and Cambodia. If you can't yet read, seek out some immigrants of those countries. If you can't or won't do that, let me know; I'll see if a family member and S.Vietnamese officer way back when will speak with you.
Lets not forget his incredible legacy of corruption in the Keating 5 caper. That led to the collapse of the Savings and Loan industry in the early 1990's. Yes John McCain was a participant in destroying the lifes work of 10's of thousands of people along with an industry. John McCain protected his buddy Charles Keating while the later looted the savings and loans he controlled.
That should have ended McCains public career. In the future his reputation will be tarnished further by his role in the #Resistance by spreading Hillary campaign smears to the FBI, knowing full well they were lies and a campaign document. His willingness to help corrupt the FBI won't be fogotten as he will soon be.
No doubt he benefitted in politics from his imprisonment.
Personally I grew disappointed in his political behavior these last years.
"Wait what? Didn't McCain have the chance to be released from torture/prison early due to a deal made but decided to stay with his comrades? Now if I'm wrong fair enough, but if I remember right, that's kinda heroic"
Kinda, though on the other hand, if he had accepted special treatment and early release, he would have violated the Code of Conduct and risked court-martial. I don't know whether he had that in mind or not. But he certainly was far from alone in doing so. It seems to me that he was unexceptional for good or ill as a POW, aside from the fact that he was, of course, an admiral's son, which gave his signed confession more weight, and would have given any other things he didn't agree to more weight as well.
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