Quote:He is right though. Getting captured doesn't make you a hero. We are too quick to label people heroes. People think Bruce Jenner is a hero for goodness sake.

 

Andrew Jackson was a war hero. Teddy Roosevelt was a war hero. Chris Kyle was a war hero.  John McCain was an American POW.

 

Regardless of whether you think is a war hero or not, it doesn't make him immune to criticism (which was why Trump brought it up). Democrats were saying the same things during the 2008 elections.

 

Trump brought it up because he likes people to think he's a man of the people who says what everyone thinks but is afraid to say. Judging from the audible response to his remarks and his lead early in the presidential race, he might be on to something.

 

Regardless of his political views and actions, to regard John McCain as anything but a hero is to reveal a lack of understanding of what he endured as a POW as opposed to what he could have done to gain freedom.

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