Did John McCain Make Up the Cross in the Sand Story?

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sent by michaelmorrill since 541 days 2 hours 50 minutes
I've now heard it countless times. McCain has used what appears to be an intensely personal moment in a prison camp as a reason to vote for him in a campaign ad. As he tells it today, it was the pivotal moment in his struggle to survive in the Hanoi Hilton. And yet, in his first thorough account of his time in captivity, in 1973, the story is absent. The story is also hauntingly like that recounted by Solzhenitsen, as told in Luke Veronis, "The Sign of the Cross."
tags: mccain, lies, religion, prisoner, solzhenitsen
5 commentscategory: Republicans

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  1. #1    More plagiarism, eh?
    written by kladner since 541 days 47 minuteskladner
  2. #2    More worrying than the possibility of plagiarism is the possibility that he's so senile that he can't remember what really happened and what didn't. Reagan was the same; I vaguely remember learning that he poached some heroic story from a movie script?
    written by Fiore since 540 days 23 hours 58 minutesFiore
  3. #3    Reagan also made up the story about a Cadillac driving welfare grandma! The GOP lies a lot.
    written by vaquero since 540 days 23 hours 35 minutesvaquero
  4. #4    #2-Yes. Reagan told a story, as if true, of an American bomber, fatally hit, where the commander chose to "ride it down" with a fatally wounded crew member. It was actually a movie plot.
    written by kladner since 540 days 14 hours 29 minuteskladner
  5. #5    #4, thanks kladner, that's what I was vaguely remembering.
    written by Fiore since 540 days 2 hours 41 minutesFiore
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