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Three months later his plane's was hit by enemy fire. >> yesterday over hanoi three american planes were shot down and at least two of their pilots captured. one of them was lieutenant commander john mccain iii, the son of a u.s. naval commander in europe. >> i was hit. i can see that the wing was gone. i ejected from my airplane. i was knocked unconscious by the ejection and injured, my arm broken. my leg broken. >> reporter: dragged by the lake by an angry crowd he was severely wounded and in shock. the vietnamese denied him medical attention. >> i was dumped in a dark cell and left to die. ...

It would always happen to somebody else. and then when it did happen to you, there is this sharp intake of breath and a recognition that in fact this is real and it is happening to you. and when it did happen to him, he said he thought that this was -- he had to steel himself and prepare himself for the most difficult final exam he would have to take. when he was in -- as mike at beshlass reminded us, when he was in prison, his father -- john mccain father had just become the commander of all naval forces in the pacific and the north vietnamese thought there would be propaganda value in releas...

Propaganda value. >> when they discovered my father was an admiral they took me to a hospital. they couldn't set my bones properly so they just slapped a cast on me. >> a french film crew was summoned to document the pows good treatment. but mccain refused to cooperate with his captors even when he was offered the opportunity to go home. >> our code said we could only go home in the order of our capture, and there were men who would been shot down long before me. >> it would cost him two years in solitary confinement. >> there were severe beatings, broke my arms. at times i wasn't in good phys...

And killed or captured. but it was never going to happen to you. it would always happen to somebody else. and then when it did happen to you, there is this sharp intake of breath and a recognition that in fact this is real and it is happening to you. and when it did happen to him, he said he thought that this was -- he had to steel himself and prepare himself for the most difficult final exam he would have to take. when he was in -- as mike at beshlass reminded us, when he was in prison, his father -- john mccain father had just become the commander of all naval forces in the pacific and the n...

Were in a war, there was a possibility might get shot down and killed or captured. but it was never going to happen to you. it would always happen to somebody else. and then when it did happen to you, there is this sharp intake of breath and a recognition that in fact this is real and it is happening to you. and when it did happen to him, he said he thought that this was -- he had to steel himself and prepare himself for the most difficult final exam he would have to take. when he was in -- as mike at beshlass reminded us, when he was in prison, his father -- john mccain father had just become...