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In reply to the discussion: I am sick, sick, SICK of John McCain!! [View all]Walk away
(9,494 posts)I wouldn't come home and use it as an excuse to send others into the same situation. Heroes are people like John Kerry who face the horror and are brave enough to face the truth when it's over.
I am old enough to have friends who fought on the ground in that war and never glorify what they went through. To me John McCain was just a poor flyer who used his excellent connections to get into a plane and bomb a country full of peasants and he was proud of it. When he was shot down he failed to live up to the standards of his fellow POWS and made it home to call himself a hero for the rest of his life. Then proceeded to send as many young Americans into to every meat grinder of a war that he could help create.
I can't imagine anyone further from a hero. I'd pin a medal on any decent hard working American before I'd salute that old fart.