MSNBCW MSNBC Live October 12, 2016
Hero. And the reason that he is a hero was because his father was the commander in chief of American Forces in the pacific. John mccain was navy royalty. He was so badly injured he was not expected to survive. He was offered Early Release by the vietnamese, which would have given them a significant propaganda victory, and mccain said no. The code of conduct requires prisoners of war to be released in the order that they are captured, and what john mccain functionally did is rather than dishonor himself, the code of conduct, the United States navy, he made an affirmative decision to die, to die...
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