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In Reply to: What did he do heroic? posted by mkuller on May 6, 2010 at 19:20:39:
His captors soon learned he was the son of a high-ranking officer in the U.S. Navy and repeatedly offered him early release, but McCain refused, not wanting to violate the military code of conduct and knowing that the North Vietnamese would use his release as a powerful piece of propaganda.
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