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...your books, you've talked about what it was like to go through the Keating Five experience, and you've been quoted as saying it was one of the worst experiences of your life. Someone else quoted you as saying it was even worse than being a POW ... That's another one of those statements made 17 or 18 years ago which was out of the context of the conversation I was having. Of course the worst, the toughest experience of my life was being imprisoned, so people can pluck phrases from 17 or 18 years...
...your books, you've talked about what it was like to go through the Keating Five experience, and you've been quoted as saying it was one of the worst experiences of your life. Someone else quoted you as saying it was even worse than being a POW...
...million consumers here. And besides, said my companion Dave, who should know, just put it out of your mind that there are any old American soldiers presently living in these parts under duress. Dave spent two years as a prisoner of war. He says there wouldn't be a POW alive, living the way he had to live. For trying to escape once, they shattered his Achilles tendon. Dave is 46 years old and healthy now, at least in body. The surfing competition was his idea, as was keeping his full name to himself. The POW-MIA question is emotional...
When retired General Wesley Clark disputed the relevance of John McCain's POW experience in the presidential race, he touched off a debate about what it takes to be Commander in Chief...
CAMPAIGN SCORECARD [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] ROUND 1 2 3 4 ISSUE Age Veepstakes General-Election Battlegrounds Machismo ACTION John McCain's doctors testified he is as healthy as a 71-year-old former POW and cancer survivor can be; his campaign released his long-awaited and still politically perilous medical records over a holiday weekend, minimizing news coverage. A fired-up McCain dismissively referred to Barack Obama as a "young man," attacking his inexperience. Not McCain's best issues, so by not losing, he wins. Both McCain and Obama are taking seriously...