Letters to the Editor
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Amazing
I am amazed at this hostility towards him for being shot down, captured, imprisoned, and tortured. It does NOT have a thing necessarily to do with presidential qualifications, but I am stunned at the derisive mocking of that period of his life.
Do you realize he cannot raise his hands over his head on his own and therefore cannot comb his hair? Watch him on stage with his wife. They clasp arms and *she* raises his arm over his head.
He himself jokes on the stump he is not a hero. The heros are the ones who managed not to get shot down.
The South Vietnamese singled him out because his father was running naval operations at the time. They were trying to break him given his high profile affiliation. He spent 5 1/2 years in the middle of a major city. They were put there precisely because it would be impossible to hide and slip away in a jungle.
Calling him a coward and worse for not getting out of there when he was badly wounded in the crash and then further harmed through beatings that separated both of his shoulders just baffles me. Good lord, you do not have to vote for him, but this kind of rhetoric is utterly reprehensible. It's mind boggling, sickening, shameful and sad.