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<blockquote data-quote="728ups" data-source="post: 5398829" data-attributes="member: 33372">Its ironic you mention he was an Admirals son. The North Vietnamese regarded him as a&nbsp; very high value prisoner ,and offered him the chance to be released ( would have been extraordinarily good press for the Vietnamese) But McCain refused, sticking to the POW code of conduct that says troops must accept release in the order in which they are captured.&quot;I knew that every prisoner the Vietnamese tried to break, those who had arrived before me and those who would come after me, would be taunted with the story of how an admiral&#039;s son had gone home early, a lucky beneficiary of America&#039;s class-conscious society,&quot; McCain later recalled.The North Vietnamese reacted with fury and escalated McCain&#039;s torture.&quot;I had learned what we all learned over there: Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine,&quot; <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2008/01/28/john-mccain-prisoner-of-war-a-first-person-account" target="_blank">McCain wrote</a> in a first-person account published in US News &amp; World Report in May 1973.For the next two weeks, McCain was allowed to recover from his debilitating injuries — a period he later described as the worst in his life.&quot;I was ashamed,&quot; he wrote in his 1999 memoir, &quot;Faith of My Fathers.&quot; &quot;I shook, as if my disgrace were a fever.&quot;For the next several years, the high-profile POW was subjected to prolonged brutal treatment and spent two years in solitary confinement in a windowless 10-by-10-foot cell.[USER=45230]@oldngray[/USER]&nbsp; would you like&nbsp; to try and convince us that this isnt the stuff heroes are made of?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="728ups, post: 5398829, member: 33372"] Its ironic you mention he was an Admirals son. The North Vietnamese regarded him as a very high value prisoner ,and offered him the chance to be released ( would have been extraordinarily good press for the Vietnamese) But McCain refused, sticking to the POW code of conduct that says troops must accept release in the order in which they are captured. "I knew that every prisoner the Vietnamese tried to break, those who had arrived before me and those who would come after me, would be taunted with the story of how an admiral's son had gone home early, a lucky beneficiary of America's class-conscious society," McCain later recalled. The North Vietnamese reacted with fury and escalated McCain's torture. "I had learned what we all learned over there: Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine," [URL='https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2008/01/28/john-mccain-prisoner-of-war-a-first-person-account']McCain wrote[/URL] in a first-person account published in US News & World Report in May 1973. For the next two weeks, McCain was allowed to recover from his debilitating injuries — a period he later described as the worst in his life. "I was ashamed," he wrote in his 1999 memoir, "Faith of My Fathers." "I shook, as if my disgrace were a fever." For the next several years, the high-profile POW was subjected to prolonged brutal treatment and spent two years in solitary confinement in a windowless 10-by-10-foot cell. [USER=45230]@oldngray[/USER] would you like to try and convince us that this isnt the stuff heroes are made of? [/QUOTE]

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