21 Gun Salute to Senator John McCain - RIP My Friend

Despite how I personally feel about the colonizers through the US War machine ..Let this black dude from the hood show yall how it's done....let me show yall what respect is like For a man who earned respect by respecting and sacrificing for others.



John McCain is a true hero, patriot, and good human being. That being said I will take moment to Trump and his supporters how honoring a WAR HERO should be done.



In honor of the would be General...Senator John McCain



RIP






21 Gun Salute

Excerpts from his final book "The Restless Wave" :

In his memoir, McCain has blistering criticisms of Donald Trump's presidency, from his lack of empathy for immigrants and refugees to his praise for "some of the world's worst tyrants."



"I'm not sure what to make of President Trump's convictions," McCain writes. "His lack of empathy for refugees, innocent, persecuted, desperate men, women, and children, is disturbing. The way he speaks about them is appalling, as if welfare or terrorism were the only purposes they could have in coming to our country.



"He has declined to distinguish the actions of our government from the crimes of despotic ones. The appearance of toughness, or a reality show facsimile of toughness, seems to matter more than any of our values. The world expects us to be concerned with the condition of humanity. We should be proud of that reputation. I’m not sure the president understands that."

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“I want to urge Americans for as long as I can, to remember that this shared devotion to human rights is our truest heritage and our most important loyalty,” McCain said.


“Before I leave, I’d like to see our politics begin to return to the purposes and practices that distinguish our history from the history of other nations,” he said. “I’d like to see us recover our sense that we are more alike than different. We’re citizens of a Republic made of shared ideals.”

After his plane was shot down, McCain is pulled out of a Hanoi lake by North Vietnamese soldiers and civilians in this October 1967 file photo.

This final excerpt is the true measure of the man.

“‘The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it,’ spoke my hero, Robert Jordan, in [Ernest Hemingway’s] ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls.‘ And I do, too. I hate to leave it. But I don’t have a complaint. Not one. It’s been quite a ride. I’ve known great passions, seen amazing wonders, fought in a war, and helped make a peace. I’ve lived very well and I’ve been deprived of all comforts. I’ve been as lonely as a person can be and I‘ve enjoyed the company of heroes. I’ve suffered the deepest despair and experienced the highest exultation. I made a small place for myself in the story of America and the history of my times.


“I leave behind a loving wife, who is devoted to protecting the world’s most vulnerable, and seven great kids, who grew up to be fine men and women. I wish I had spent more time in their company. But I know they will go on to make their time count, and be of useful service to their beliefs, and to their fellow human beings. Their love for me and mine for them is the last strength I have.


“What an ingrate I would be to curse the fate that concludes the blessed life I’ve led. I prefer to give thanks for those blessings, and my love to the people who blessed me with theirs. The bell tolls for me. I knew it would. So I tried, as best I could, to stay a ‘part of the main.‘ I hope those who mourn my passing, and even those who don’t, will celebrate as I celebrate a happy life lived in imperfect service to a country made of ideals, whose continued service is the hope of the world. And I wish all of you great adventures, good company, and lives as lucky as mine.”

When he was the Republican nominee for President y’all were calling him a racist.

Bunch of hypocrites.

When he was the Republican nominee for President y’all were calling him a racist.

Bunch of hypocrites. Originally Posted by TheDaliLama

False..you peddle in lies but I have truth....NO sane person ever called Jon McCain OF ALL people a racist. In fact he proved that by this encounter that forever changed politics, infuriated the racists on the right but added to his remarkable legend. /fail attempt Dali try again



Don't try to use this platform to bash the man. If you want to say something disparaging about the War Hero then just be a fucking man and say it as it doesn't matter because he'll always be 10x the man that any of you will ever be.

BO was rude to his face.

Spare us the “McCain was a great guy” thing.

No one is buying it.

^ like a said be a man if you're gonna disparage a war hero don't hide behind no skirts.

The only reason you’re praising JM in such glowing terms is because you know that there allot of Republicans who didn’t care for him.

And like all your other lame posts, you only do it to get attention.

Do as your avatar suggest and go find someone to open wide to. There are pipe-yards all over the city

^ like a said be a man if you're gonna disparage a war hero don't hide behind no skirts. Originally Posted by Sistine Chapel

McCain wasn't a war hero just because he was a POW. he wasn't a traitor for being a POW either.

a War Hero is someone who shows exceptional bravery in combat. just doing your duty doesn't qualify.

Do as your avatar suggest and go find someone to open wide to. There are pipe-yards all over the city Originally Posted by Sistine Chapel

And you’ve probably got a coffee mug with your avatar on it at every one of them.

McCain wasn't a war hero just because he was a POW. he wasn't a traitor for being a POW either.

a War Hero is someone who shows exceptional bravery in combat. just doing your duty doesn't qualify. Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

It only counts if you do like John Kerry and run them down and shoot them in the back. Then you’re a war hero.

McCain wasn't a war hero just because he was a POW. he wasn't a traitor for being a POW either.

a War Hero is someone who shows exceptional bravery in combat. just doing your duty doesn't qualify. Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

I guess when you compare John McCain to Ted Kennedy or John Kerry then you can call him a war hero.

Btw...congratulations Ted Kennedy. 9 years without a drink!