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The "Honor Gap"
By:Roger
Date: 10/22/08 2:37pm
In Response To: Truly Amazing!!! (Lola)

How in the world do you get to abortion from a story about good Samaritanism? WOW That issue isn't helping republicans this year Lola, it's hurting them, you might want to "ix-na on the abortion-eh"....
Want to talk about McCain's POW experience, read what this guy thinks about him, he's a fellow POW who didn't spill his guts while in captivity. Here is an excerpt from an article found in Rolling Stone here:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23316912/makebelieve_maverick/print
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There's a distance between the two men that belies their shared experience in North Vietnam — call it an honor gap. Like many American POWs, McCain broke down under torture and offered a "confession" to his North Vietnamese captors. Dramesi, in contrast, attempted two daring escapes. For the second he was brutalized for a month with daily torture sessions that nearly killed him. His partner in the escape, Lt. Col. Ed Atterberry, didn't survive the mistreatment. But Dramesi never said a disloyal word, and for his heroism was awarded two Air Force Crosses, one of the service's highest distinctions. McCain would later hail him as "one of the toughest guys I've ever met."

On the grounds between the two brick colleges, the chitchat between the scion of four-star admirals and the son of a prizefighter turns to their academic travels; both colleges sponsor a trip abroad for young officers to network with military and political leaders in a distant corner of the globe.

"I'm going to the Middle East," Dramesi says. "Turkey, Kuwait, Lebanon, Iran."

"Why are you going to the Middle East?" McCain asks, dismissively.

"It's a place we're probably going to have some problems," Dramesi says.

"Why? Where are you going to, John?"

"Oh, I'm going to Rio."

"What the hell are you going to Rio for?"

McCain, a married father of three, shrugs.

"I got a better chance of getting laid."

Dramesi, who went on to serve as chief war planner for U.S. Air Forces in Europe and commander of a wing of the Strategic Air Command, was not surprised. "McCain says his life changed while he was in Vietnam, and he is now a different man," Dramesi says today. "But he's still the undisciplined, spoiled brat that he was when he went in."
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Please do follow the link and read the entire article...
Irie
Ya Mon!

Messages In This Thread

Character -- central scrutinizer -- 10/22/08 12:41pm
Re: Character -- rhonda -- 10/22/08 9:10pm
Re: Character -- mini mare -- 10/22/08 2:40pm
Random act of kindness COOL THAT *NM* -- Cat -- 10/22/08 8:47pm
Truly Amazing!!! -- Lola -- 10/22/08 2:12pm
Re: Makes you wonder... -- BMD -- 10/22/08 10:43pm
Re: Truly Amazing!!! -- vermontirie -- 10/22/08 2:49pm
Tables turned? -- ray -- 10/22/08 3:16pm
Re: Tables turned? -- vermontirie -- 10/22/08 3:44pm
Really? -- ray -- 10/22/08 4:50pm
Re: Really? -- queenb -- 10/22/08 7:00pm
Re: Really? -- vermontirie -- 10/22/08 5:35pm
Re: Really? -- Roger -- 10/22/08 6:26pm
Re: Really? -- queenb -- 10/22/08 7:28pm
Re: Really? -- Bob and Pat -- 10/23/08 8:54am
Re: Really? -- queenb -- 10/22/08 7:56pm
oops...i forgot this one... -- ray -- 10/22/08 5:09pm
Re: oops...i forgot this one... -- queenb -- 10/22/08 7:29pm
Ray has spoken.... -- Bob and Pat -- 10/22/08 5:18pm
'Twas a good one Pat! -- ray -- 10/23/08 4:22pm
But, but... -- Bob and Pat -- 10/23/08 4:56pm
LOL.Pat.. -- ray -- 10/23/08 8:32pm
Re: LOL. Ray. -- Islander1 -- 10/23/08 9:50pm
The "Honor Gap" -- Roger -- 10/22/08 2:37pm
Re: Truly Amazing!!! -- goldilocks -- 10/22/08 2:39pm
Re: Truly Amazing!!! -- yetta -- 10/24/08 1:19am
Central Scrutinizer -- sista lion -- 10/24/08 4:28am
try this link -- georgiajan -- 10/24/08 7:57am
Re: try this link -- Roger -- 10/24/08 3:07pm
Give thanks! *NM* -- sista lion -- 10/25/08 2:11pm
:) *NM* -- Bob and Pat -- 10/22/08 2:10pm