Here’s something to ponder:
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Mc was shot down over Viet Nam in Oct 1967 and spent a couple of months recuperating.
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He was offered early release in June 1968 because he was an Admiral’s son but turned it down.
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He made his songbird confession in August 1968 that was pumped throughout the POW camp.
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He was released in 1973.
What are the chances that someone else would have gotten out of there alive, much less a hero, after basically snitching on his buddies?
http:// abcnews.go.com/Politics/john-mccain-pow/story?id=32574863
Here’s something else that’s odd about that time period. Similar to today, there was a rash of mysterious accidents plaguing the seas:
• April 1963 the USS Thresher went missing with 129 crewmen
• Oct 1966 the Orinsky catches fire killing 44 men (Mc was not onboard at this time, but this is the carrier that Mc would launch from the following year in his final flight over Viet Nam)
• July 1967 the Forestall catches fire killing 146 men (Mc was onboard and perhaps responsible for the fire)
• Jan 1968 the INS Dakar, an Israeli went missing with 69 souls onboard
• Jan 1968 the USS Pueblo was captured by NK
• Jan 1968 the Minerve, a French submarine, went missing with 52 crewmen
• March 1968 the Russian submarine K-129 went missing
• May 1968 the USS Scorpion, a nuclear sub, went missing with 99 crewmen
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Oriskany_(CV-34)
http:// www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/The-mystery-of-the-Dakar
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_submarine_Minerve_(S647)
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Thresher_(SSN-593)