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In reply to the discussion: Now That The Missing Man Formation Has Flown Over Annapolis, The Air Is Still and Calm [View all]peggysue2
(10,828 posts)23. I agree, kooth
McCain proved himself a man of moral fiber in that moment during the campaign. And that's no small thing when there was so much at stake and it would have been so-o-o easy to slide into that whole smear routine.
Did he slip and slide on other things? Yes. Did he take positions I could not accept? Yes. But you have to give a man props when he hits the mark squarely. He did it during his military service, he did it during that townhall and strangely enough, he did it through his own death.
No small task.
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Now That The Missing Man Formation Has Flown Over Annapolis, The Air Is Still and Calm [View all]
peggysue2
Sep 2018
OP
My husband made a point of watching that today. He choked up talking to a Repub neighbor...
Hekate
Sep 2018
#17
My brother and several of my friends enlisted during Viet Nam for the same reasons:
maddiemom
Sep 2018
#27