Every time I read about the POW experience of John McCain or his fellow prisoners, I am moved to tears. McCain's maverick spirit shone most brightly when he told his captors, "I'll go home when everybody else does."
Rob Knutson was a fellow prisoner in Viet Nam with McCain. Yesterday's Rocky Mountain News provided some excerpts of a speech given recently by Knutson to a local Republican Men's Club. Knutson describes the torture he and McCain were subjected to. He and McCain were among about thirty prisoners who were considered attitude problems by their communist captors in North Viet Nam.
McCain knew Knutson was sick (Knudson weighed only 89 pounds), so McCain regularly tapped out words of encouragement on the wall that separated McCain's cell from Knudson's. Knudson knows what it means to lose one's freedom. His advice to us: "Peace without freedom is not worth anything."
We must all work to protect what freedom we have left in America.
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Yes that part of McCain's life experience is a shining example of what a soldier will do in regards to his duty.
They can never call that man a "Chickenhawk".
We must all work to protect what freedom we have left in America.
Amen.
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