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shecky_blue t1_j8jjqrd wrote

Reply to comment by keksmuzh in Rudy Giuliani Docuseries 'When Truth Isn't Truth' Reveals Mayor's Dark Side by aktivate74

Hard to compare being the NYC mayor on 9/11 to having your airplane shot down and being locked up in a north Vietnamese POW camp for six years.

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keksmuzh t1_j8jl804 wrote

That’s the thing: McCain never should’ve been in a position to get shot down in Vietnam in the first place. He flew recklessly and crashed several planes domestically. He only kept his wings because his family had a lot of say in the military.

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shecky_blue t1_j8kgywq wrote

So, I’m hardly a McCain apologist (see: Palin, Sarah) but didn’t he refuse a prisoner transfer which would have gotten him out early because he was in fact an admiral’s son? I could be wrong there.

He wasn’t as much of a badass as Admiral Stockdale though, who cut himself with a razor and bashed himself in the face so he couldn’t be paraded around by the Viet Cong.

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AmishAvenger t1_j8mdbfq wrote

That is correct. They wanted to release him as propaganda. He refused to go unless everyone who’d been taken prisoner ahead of him was released first.

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VeterinarianThese951 t1_j8kiyzh wrote

Too badass for me. I am a big sissy when it comes to pain.

I would have been on the parade float like the grand marshal…

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