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Tribute To CAPT John McCain, USN
By
Donald Moskowitz
September 03, 2018
Monday PM
John McCain was shot down over Vietnam in October 1967 after completing over 20 missions. He was a prisoner of war until 1973. While McCain fought in Vietnam our fearless President got four college draft deferments. After graduating in 1968 Trump visited a doctor who provided him with a letter stating he had bone spurs in a heel and this enabled him to get a medical deferment from the draft. He later said the bone spurs were "minor".
CAPT McCain's passing brings back memories of my Naval service which culminated in June 1967, and I recall McCain was almost killed in July 1967.
On July 29, 1967 an electrical power surge occurred in a Phantom F-4B parked on the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal operating off Vietnam. A Zuni rocket shot across the flight deck and struck an external fuel tank of a A-4 Skyhawk piloted by LCDR White or LCDR McCain. McCain and the other pilots were able to escape from their planes as jet fuel spilled across the flight deck, ignited and triggered a chain-reaction of bomb explosions that killed 134 sailors and injured 161.
It was one of the worst Naval accidents since WWII.
Donald Moskowitz
Londonderry, NH
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Received September 01, 2018
- Published September 03, 2018
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