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In reply to the discussion: Were you, John McCain, a good pilot or a bad pilot? Yes or No? [View all]The Wizard
(12,545 posts)McCain's hero status is questionable. Some of us were conscripts, fighting on the ground in grueling conditions. McCain volunteered to drop bombs on innocent people who neither harmed nor threatened the United States. His primary objective was to be a career officer and become an admiral like his father and grandfather, collateral damage and innocent victims be damned.
Most of us were just fighting to stay alive and come home on our feet.
I do not now, nor did I ever consider myself a hero, just someone lucky enough to walk in my front door upon returning from Vietnam.
Ted (war profiteer) Sampley is dead, but what really happened to McCain is unknown.
The truth is McCain is still pissed off at Hagel because Hagel supported Obama in 2008. And McCain is a war monger, ready to start wars and continue them in perpetuity. Anyone with McCain's radical view of permanent war should remain silent on all defense issues.