john mc cain; a real american hero

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John McCain rarely speaks about his experiences as a POW in Vietnam, but one of his cell mates at the Hanoi Hilton on Thursday described some of the conditions and character traits that earned McCain the commendations he received for his war service.
Col. George “Bud” Day, 83, is the most decorated service man since Gen. Douglas MacArthur, with more than 70 medals. A living legend, Day was blown out of the sky two months to the day before the North Vietnamese shot down a propaganda prize, whose father and grandfather were renowned American admirals.

“They told me we were gonna get a roommate and it was gonna be the prince. The Vietnamese called him the prince so I asked my nurse what was his name? They said John McCain,” Day told FOX News.
Both he and McCain were taken captive in 1967, and held until their release in 1973.
Day said the first time he saw McCain, he believed the future senator was close to death and that the only reason for the chance encounter was part of a Vietnamese ploy to break the morale of U.S. servicemen already in captivity.
“I took one look at him, and my brain instantly said, ‘They dropped this guy off on me to claim that we let him die,’” Day said. “He was just emaciated. Very, very skinny, in this full body cast. Just filthy.”
The U.S. soldiers were held sometimes five to a cell, barely big enough for two.
“He had this gimpy knee where he’d busted his knee, this arm had been fractured in a couple places, he’d been bayoneted in the leg, this arm was out at the shoulder and, in fact, during that time it was out at the shoulder so long it wore a hole in this bone,” Day said.
During captivity, they were tortured mercilessly, Day said, describing one tactic that McCain has also recalled.
“They roped me under the arms, tied my hands behind my back, ran another rope to that, got me up on a chair, threw that rope up over a rafter and jerked the chair out from under me and your own weight just tears your body apart,” he said.
Day’s broken arm was re-broken during torture so he would never fly again. McCain played physical therapist.
“John said, ‘Well we’ll gather up some bamboo, and he was in a bandage on his leg at that time. So I got some strips of bamboo, smuggled them into the room, John put his foot in my arm pit and pulled on my wrist ’till we could get the bone forced back down … it wasn’t exactly perfect but it worked out he got it back to where it was functional,” Day said.
But nerve damage was extensive — his crushed hands were useless. Meanwhile, McCain was treated no better than the trash they were fed in the form of a soup.
“I mean you could smell him for 25 feet. Bunch of food and nasty stuff in his hair, and down his neck and inside his cast. The cast was not lined so every time he would move inside this cast, it was just eating a hole in his arm or his elbow or someplace, and he was just in — he was in pain,” Day recalled.
Yet McCain, now 71, made efforts to help Day recover from his own injuries, Day said.
Day said he had limited use of his arms, which was a result of a combination of torture and the initial plane crash that put him in the hands of his captors — an ordeal that earned Day the Congressional Medal of Honor.
“And when I finally did regain use of that, it was after months and months of dragging this hand and finger on the wall of the prison cell,” Day said, walking his fingers up the air like he did many years ago.
“John would help me. … John would pull my fingers out straight. They would just instantly recurl. And finally, one morning, I had just the slightest bit of movement in this hand — finger — and we both cried,” Day said.
McCain, whose military record was released to the Associated Press on Wednesday, received 17 commendations over his career from 1951-81. They included the Silver Star for his conduct in captivity. He also received the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross and a Bronze Star.
Day said by any humane standard, McCain would have been a good candidate for early release from the camp, but that wasn’t in his playbook.
“It also wasn’t in his playbook to die. In fact he quickly became a leader.”
Day said he asked McCain if he would be one of his preachers.
“He said sure. He had a great handle on the Episcopalian liturgy, he could just repeat it verbatim,” he said.
But repeating what he went through during his incarceration is something McCain almost never does as a presidential candidate. Day said he thinks he should.
“I’ve never seen any shortcomings or any shortfall out of him talking about that, but he just doesn’t trade on that. I think he feels that it’s wrong to trade on being a hero, but he is,” Day said.
Click here to watch Day’s interview with FOX News.
FOX News’ Carl Cameron contributed to this report.

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Nice source!!

FOX NEWS!!


YouTube - John McCain (SongBird McCain) Traitor!

YouTube - John McCain is a TRAITOR

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AND YOU SERVED IN WHAT BRANCH OF THE ARMED SERVICES DOC????

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Roscoe:

McBush knows NOTHING about economics and brougth on Phil Gramm as
his "economic advisor" .... enough said on that issue?

"Songbird" is his nickname for selling out fellow soldiers in Vietnam ...

McBush was part of the Keating 5 Scandal in the 80s ...


WISE UP ... THIS GUY IS OLD AND GUTLESS ... HE CAVED WHEN BUSH ATTACKED HIS FAMILY IN THE 2000 SC PRIMARY ... IMAGINE HOW MCCAIN WOULD REACT IF THIS COUNTRY WAS HIT??

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YouTube - POW's Say John McCain Is A Lying Skunk !!!!! HTS 020908 p2

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"And They Are, Were Recipients Of The Judgment Of God For That. The newspaper cariied the story, in our local area, that was not carried nationally, that there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the , Katrina came. And the promise of that parade was that it was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other gay pride parades. So I believe that the judgment of God is a very real thing." -- Rev. John Hagee, McCain's Endorsing Pastor.

Go Keith Olbermann, Play That Sound Clip Over And Over and Over and Over and Over again until NOVEMBER.

Hagee retracted this statement today, I think it's only fair that All of America get to Hear this Racist, Homophobic Preacher's Hate-Filled Sermons.

About John McCain and Hagee: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/mccain-proud...

Mr. McCain, who has been on a steady search for support among conservative and evangelical leaders who have long distrusted him, said he was "very honored'' by Mr. Hagee's endorsement. Asked about Mr. Hagee's extensive writings on Armageddon and about what one questioner said was Mr. Hagee's belief that the anti-Christ will be the head of the European Union, Mr. McCain responded that "all I can tell you is that I am very proud to have Pastor John Hagee's support.''


Other little known facts about Hagee (from http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/28/hagee-mccain-endors... /):

Hagee holds many other radical beliefs. In a 2006 address to CUFI, Hagee declared:
The United States must join Israel in a pre-emptive military strike against Iran to fulfill God’s plan for both Israel and the West… a biblically prophesied end-time confrontation with Iran, which will lead to the Rapture, Tribulation, and Second Coming of Christ.
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Update II: Hagee’s tv show, “John Hagee Today,” is also broadcast on Cornerstone Television. In 1999, McCain wrote to the FCC on behalf of campaign contributor Lowell “Bud” Paxson, urging a deal that would have made $17.5 million for Cornerstone.

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Whether he is, or isn't a war hero has little or nothing to do with whether he has the qualifications to be President of the United States. Merely reference back to the previous Presidents who were in the various services for examples of both good and bad Presidents. . . .As an aside; I don't believe that we have had any Presidents who were in the Marine Corp. Why not??????????

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Funny how McBush is a real American Hero when the GOP attacked
Max Cleland in 2002 and Kerry in 2004 ...

The GOP is more phony than Pamela Anderson's tits