Being shot down & surrendering to the enemy like mccain did is not my idea of a "hero".What are your thoughts?

Question

USAF veteran here

you?

Answer 1

I can tell that you have never even seen any combat at all. that is a good thing for you and I am glad that you never did and I hope you never have to . McCain was a pilot that was shot down defending his fellow troops on the ground . When he was shot down , he was injured and was captured ( not surrendered ) by the Vietnamese . Yes he was and is an American hero , but I would not expect anyone that is supporting a Muslim for President of the USA to understand anything about freedom and its cost . Freedom never has been and never will be free . Think about that when your Muslim leader wins and turns this great nation over the UN or worse , Yes you are going to see change , but it is not going to be the change you want . This nation will fall from within when Your leader gets into office and I will bet that you and all of his followers will be the first to

start complaining about why American let this happen .

Answer 2

I think He served His Country and did what He needed to do and suffered plenty. But He is not smart enough to be Our next President. I would call Him John McBush. We don't need a Hero. We need some one with some brains. All Republicans are dumb a$$es. Bill Clinton left Bush with a balanced budget, and surplus money. Bush pissed it all away. And because He and His family is in the Oil Business, found a way to drive up Oil prices to a point that it has crippled the econemies of most Countries of the World. He is killing the middle class people Who pave the way for the rich and the poor.  

Answer 3

I think your wrong. McCain served and risked his life for this nation. Better men than you and me have died so that you can have your pathetic opinion.

Answer 4

Unless you were there, you don't know what happened.  From the form of your statement there it looks to me as if you don't like POW's.  I am willing to bet that you like jane fonda too eh?

Spit your hate somewhere else...preferably towards someone who can react to it rather than your monitor.

Answer 5

Reminds me of a MAD TV skit where they interviewed a POW guard at his camp. He said McCain was uncooperative. Would you want an uncooperative man for President?

Answer 6

He had a broken leg and was surrounded by the Viet Cong. That's not my idea of surrendering.  

Answer 7

"War Hero" is an oxymoron... like "military intelligence"

Answer 8

The heroism you speak of was during the time he spent in a prison camp, actually years.  Years before you were a spot on the sheets.  He is a hero, the most heroic thing your messiah Obama did was get a splinter in his finger stapling posters to telephone poles.

And why aren't you in Iraq?  I answered your question.

Realst - Didn't follow bailout procedures?  Have you ever forcefully exited an aircraft?  Guess not, fortunately I never had to eject, we just jumped out when told to do so, but ejection is a violent procedure.  You are sitting on a stick of dynamite the "ejects" you from an aircraft traveling around 300 miles an hour, vertically at speeds approaching 200 miles an hour.  It is extremely violent and you will be injured in some way.  Simple physics.

Answer 9

could you handle years in a Vietnam prison camp getting every bone in your body broke and re-broke?

didn't think so...

Answer 10

I would not criticize anyone's military service since I have never served in the military myself.  I think that's a really cheap shot and it makes the person leveling the criticism look like a jerk.  

Answer 11

Actually, I'd be interested to know what your idea of a "hero" is... I doubt you really know.

But anyway, people aren't born heroes. More often than not, they just get thrown into situations where their subsequent actions determine whether they are a hero or a coward. Since McCain was seriously wounded when he crashed BEHIND ENEMY LINES, just what did you expect him to do with two broken arms (among other injuries)... shoot at the enemy with his feet?

Answer 12

The Vietnamese had "Presidential Training Schools" set up throughout the jungles. He attended them often. This is where his experience comes from to lead.

Answer 13

His getting shot down is not what makes him a hero.

When the VietCong found out that he was the son of an admiral, they offered to release him, but not the others in the camp.  He refused, saying that he would only leave with his brothers.  

I think that that's pretty heroic.

Answer 14

He should have joined the Texas Air Guard.  They don't take attendance.

Me and d**k Chaney had deferments from the draft

Answer 15

That word is very loosely used in the USA.

Answer 16

What kind of drugs are you on?  Apparently you cannot comprehend what being shot down entails.  My brother was in the Army and I was in the Navy Vietnam era veterans both of us.  He suffers from the chemicals they sprayed on him.  I am fine.  

Answer 17

My thought is that McCain is damaged goods.  He was shot down, broke his arms because he didn't follow the bailout procedure, and collaborated with the enemy telling them everything he knew about his mission and his ship's coordinates to get medical treatment for himself.  I call that a coward and a loser.  If he will give it up so easily, what's to say he won't hand the country over to Red China if they threaten him?

That story about him telling his captors he was going to stay when he had a chance to leave is just lame.  If the VC told you to go, you did.  They didn't exactly give prisoners a choice unless they were making spots for Communist TV about how evil the USA was like Songbird McCain did.

He is not a hero by any stretch of the imagination.  If the GOP could make fun of Kerry's Purple Hearts for actual face to face fighting, then McCain is fair game for the same.