“The Rich are not Like You and Me”. Rich like McCain get legends. Others who suffer, serve and deliver more get the VA. So please stop fabricating his legend and leave me to:
-  Forget 2 VN tours in his era when the few I knew, who knew him well, agreed. W/o his daddy’s pull he wouldn’t have been at Annapolis at the bottom. Wouldn’t have gotten into flight school, or graduated and, for lack of skill or luck, been shot down
- Forget US offered VN a deal to release him, just him. (And Chicoms ar smart tacticians, so I can’t see his being a high-value chip led them to pick torturing him for fun over trading his better care for other US concessions
- Forget he traded the wife who stood by him as a prisoner for a wealthier, more politically suited, upgrade. W/agg-land profits John’s fight to keep cheap immigrant labor flowing then enhanced
- Forget he protected his Keating Five pals' wealth. Stuck us with a $500 billion cleanup tab for their S&L mess
Win John. Just quietly like a soldier