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Originally Posted by HedonistForever
You can be a hero and an asshole in one lifetime. You can't take away the asshole things a person does and you can't take away heroic actions. Climbing into the cockpit of a jet, flying it off a carrier into enemy fire is a heroic act any way you cut it. Saying "I don't go home until we all go home" was the act of a hero. So yeah, I think McCain was an asshole at times especially to his wife, as it looks to us, but who the hell knows what goes on in a marriage. He was without question a hero at one point in his life and as a former military man, I will never take that away from him and will never not include the word hero when I speak of him. No matter the reason why he climbed into that jet, no matter that he was shot down as some complain and I will never forgive Trump for that disgraceful comment, he did what I could never do. I shutter to think what I might have done in the POW camp. It is the thing of nightmares.
Thank you for your service John McCain. RIP.
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I agree with most of your statements. As a Veteran myself, (draftee), I respect John McCain for his service.
I also have distain for him as a political figure who came to represent everything bad in the Republican Party prior to the election of President Trump.