'Even veterans who support the president told me they can’t understand why the president would speak with such contempt about a man who devoted his life to public service ... and died of brain cancer seven months ago,' LATstevelopez writes.
In 1999, I briefly rode with McCain on his “Straight Talk Express” as he traveled through New Hampshire in a run for the presidency. His politics weren’t mine, but I couldn’t help but admire the man, who had trouble raising his arm high enough to comb his hair due to the wartime torture he had suffered. A short time later, in Hanoi, I visited the dank, miserable cell where McCain spent much of his five-plus years in captivity.
“He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was shot down. I like people that weren’t captured.”Trump survived that, as vile as it was, which may be why he felt emboldened to take another poke at McCain over the weekend. John McCain, front right, with his squadron in 1965. The late senator, who died of brain cancer in August, was long lauded as a U.S. war hero after being a prisoner of war during the Vietnam conflict.
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