huge inferno, 134 fellow sailors died. a few months later, mccain was on a routine bombing mission and his plane was shot down. >> i was girating violently, almost straight down. so i had to eject very quickly. i was knocked conscious. >> found sijz surrounded by angry villagers, they forced him to give this interview for the exchange of life saving treatment. he was taken as a triz they a-- taken as a prisoner of war and tortured. >> he was beaten on a regular basis, sockets pulled out. hung from the ceiling. >> when his father was named the commander of the u.s. pacific forces, the vietnamese offered john mccain freedom. he refused, it would have broken p.o.w protocol, release in order of capture. >> there was a correlation of my