John McCain Escaping Forrestal Fire

[Mr.Wizard]

The Link

I know this does not cover any of the election issues, but wow, dude is tough.

 

[naked_bongo]

Just wait until the Forrestal Veterans for Truth get a hold of him.

 

[SenateHorn]

No matter what you think of his politics, he has lived an impressive life and is an American hero.

 

[bozo_casanova]

He's a tough guy.
If Hillary Clinton is my party's nominee, it will be my pleasure to join ~53% of my fellow Americans and the majorities of 46 States in electing him President.

 

[BA93]

Reading his aviation history, the guy had horrible luck as a pilot. Normally your plane doesn't take a missile from another plane while sitting on an aircraft carrier. And he had a few mishaps including ditching a plane in CC Bay.

 

[RomaVicta]

naked bongo beat me to it. When I saw the link I wasn't sure if I was going to get a heroic story or somebody claiming McCain crawled over his back to save himself.

Is there a list published of which Viet vets to honor and which ones to vilify? I always thought we should honor them all, but I guess I'm an idoit or Oklahoma freakshow.

 

[zzzz]

A longer video that is about the disaster, not McCain:
The Link

Apparently, the ship came close to sinking.

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[Ampoliros]

When I first read this thread title, I thought you were the worlds worst speller. I still think you may not want to write any dictionaries anytime soon, but you may not be the world's worst.

 

[Mr.Wizard]

Yeah, transposed some letters, life is tough.

 

[Ampoliros]

Well, I was making a joke that after the letter transposition was "Forrestal Fire", which looks like a royal fuckup of "Forest Fire". If someone (like me) didn't know that the Forrestal was a ship that caught fire, you can see how they might think you were a terrible speller

 

[Longhorn_Fan68]

This thread was completely not what I was expecting it to be after reading the title.

 

[LurkerintheDark]

It's being said that McCain actually STARTED the fire on the Forrestal so that he could appear to be a hero for a later political career.
I read that on the internet someplace.
Oh, here: unimpeachable source

Remember: it started here.

 

[Mr.Wizard]

Oh, heh, sorry man.

 

[cloydtex]

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