Sen. John McCain eulogized a former Vietnam War cellmate and longtime friend George “Bud” Day on the Senate floor today, saying that when they were both captives, “Bud showed me how to save my self-respect and my honor, and that is a debt I can never repay.”
(Hat tip: Talking Points Memo)
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Whatever your political affiliation (and I’m a Liberal), I think Senator McCain’s speech eulogizing his former comrade George Day, was moving and sincere. I don’t think many of us would wish to have shared their experience as prisoners of the North Vietnamese.
I’m a Vietnam Era veteran, but never served in the combat zone. The war was, in my opinion, a terrible mistake and misuse of many young men’s lives. That said, it does not discredit the distinction with which they served.
How sad the senator didn’t have similar compassion for his fellow Vietnam POW pilots 20 years ago when he abandoned them by shutting down the congressional investigation into evidence they were still being held: http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/invest…
Anybody who believes this war criminal’s crocodile tears deserves the government they have and the corner of hell they will occupy.