My father was wounded in 1944, in and out of VA hospitals his entire life, and never mentioned it to me. He died drunk, so maybe he should have, and certainly didn't claim lay claim to, or have, a “high moral character,” tended to brag about everything else, but didn't talk about his war experiences.
I had an uncle that was in the army when WWII started—1938 until 1948. North Africa, Italy, Germany—wounded and captured. Came home and lived in a tiny house by himself until his heart gave out. Never mentioned it.
McCain uses being a POW to justify marrying a multi-millionaire so her father would get him started in politics. How dare you to ask him to count his houses! And he has character?
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