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Elder Bush was shot down in the Pacific and narrowly avoided
Capture and/or death himself. No matter how cynical and exploitive you are, humility arises out of personal circumstance.
BTW I'm reading an account of the Viet Minh treatment of French Prisoners in the first Indochina war. The survival rate for prisoners who were wounded or injured was zero. I thought I was reading an account of the Nazi Death Camps. Brutal doesn't even touch on it and John McCain should thank his stars that by the time he was shot down the VN had been forced to exercise a little humanity because if he were French there was a 100% probability he would have died in captivity.