Letters to the Editor
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Vote McCain, He sticks by his Friends!
How war hero John McCain betrayed the Vietnamese peasant who saved his life
23rd March 2008
In all the tales of wartime courage peppering John McCain's presidential campaign trail, perhaps the most outstanding example of selfless heroism involves not the candidate but a humble Vietnamese peasant.
On October 26, 1967, Mai Van On ran from the safety of a bomb shelter at the height of an air raid and swam out into the lake where Lieutenant Commander McCain was drowning, tangled in his parachute cord after ejecting when his Skyhawk bomber was hit by a missile.
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In another article Mr. On, who was a communist party official, said that McCain was not tortured because he was too valuable to them as the son of an Admiral. This account makes sense to me.