Not just shot down & captured. He spent 5 1/2 years as a POW, enduring both torture & years of solitary confinement.
While a POW his father was named commander of all US forces in Vietnam. The Vietnamese offered to release him then as a propaganda tool, but he refused.
I’m sure President Bone-spurs would have jumped at such a chance to be released like that. Assuming he would have survived the solitary confinement & torture.
Not just shot down & captured. He spent 5 1/2 years as a POW, enduring both torture & years of solitary confinement.
While a POW his father was named commander of all US forces in Vietnam. The Vietnamese offered to release him then as a propaganda tool, but he refused.
I’m sure President Bone-spurs would have jumped at such a chance to be released like that. Assuming he would have survived the solitary confinement & torture.