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wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts) Fri Sep 22, 2017, 06:18 PM Sep 2017

I wonder if John McCain was watching the PBS series on the Vietnam war last night? [View all]

They showed John McCain after his capture by North Vietnamese talking to a French journalist. He was laying bed with broken bones and he was crying and telling the journalist to tell his wife he loved her.

Maybe those memories are part of why he is against this bill. He knows what suffering is.

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I wonder if John McCain was watching the PBS series on the Vietnam war last night? [View all] wasupaloopa Sep 2017 OP

I wrote a post about that last night. I wrote... BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #1

Here is a link to a panel that Ken Burns and his codirector and McCain, Hagel and Kerry karynnj Sep 2017 #2

Here is one of the replies to the video wasupaloopa Sep 2017 #5

wow, that is one unobservant person -- unless it is meant as sarcasm, which the RW does do karynnj Sep 2017 #6

Did McCain talk too much? left-of-center2012 Sep 2017 #3

I just came across his tweet: demmiblue Sep 2017 #4

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