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"prisoner of war" Definitions
  1. a person, usually a member of the armed forces, who is captured by the enemy during a war and kept in a prison camp until the war has finished
"prisoner of war" Synonyms
captive hostage prisoner enemy prisoner of war pow POW internee detainee capture convict inmate gaolbird(UK) jailbird(US) kidnap victim slave con old lag bondservant yardbird lag

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John McCain, who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
McCain suffered as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.
He spent almost four years as a prisoner of war.
McCain spent over five years as a prisoner of war.
McCain was a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.
A defense lawyer for former prisoner of war Army Sgt.
McCain endured years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
WILMORE: And McCain was a prisoner of war, you know.
Johnson, like McCain, was a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Bowe Bergdahl, an American prisoner of war now charged with desertion.
Himmler inspects a prisoner of war camp in Russia, circa 1941.
John McCain, who was himself a prisoner of war during Vietnam.
He was a prisoner of war for five years in Vietnam.
As a prisoner of war, he endured endless torture and isolation.
Sam Johnson, former prisoner of war in Vietnam along with Sen.
John McCain who was a prisoner of war during the Vietman War.
"This is typical prisoner-of-war chapter one isolation technique," he said.
John McCain's time as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.
Before becoming a senator, McCain was a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Mr. McCain spent more than five years as a prisoner of war.
That's how long John McCain was a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Above, doctors in Annapolis, Md., examining a Civil War prisoner of war.
Commander McCain's prisoner-of-war status was widely reported around the world.
John McCain's (R-Ariz.) experience as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
He should have died as a prisoner of war, but he didn't.
Being a politician, veteran or prisoner of war is not a prerequisite.
Karl managed to turn his fortunes around while still a prisoner of war.
John McCain (R-Ariz.) wasn't war hero for being a prisoner of war.
Red Horse saw himself as a prisoner of war, drawing for his captors.
Gets shot down, is a prisoner of war, fails to win the presidency.
John McCain for being a prisoner of war, and when the "Access Hollywood" leaked.
But also empathy points for growing up an ostracized but pampered prisoner of war.
John was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for more than five years.
McCain spent fighting for his life as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.
John McCain, who was held as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.
McCain was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for more than five years.
It was a rare accounting of Nazi atrocities by an American prisoner of war.
A prisoner of war who was kicked out of a bomb shelter and died.
I.A. Accounting Command and the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office were merged.
Mr. McCain, pictured above, spent more than five years as a prisoner of war.
McCain, 81, was a naval aviator, prisoner of war, conservative statesman, and presidential candidate.
John McCain, the former Vietnam prisoner of war and onetime Republican nominee for President.
He was a prisoner of war for more than five years in North Vietnam.
As a prisoner of war, he was tortured and put in solitary confinement for years.
On the map, the Beef Creek Apache Prisoner-of-War Cemetery—one of three Apache
Read more:Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher is on trial for allegedly murdering a prisoner of war.
For company, she brings Avram (Dror Keren), a childhood friend and former prisoner of war.
He bailed out and was captured and held as a prisoner of war for 15 months.
It was also the place where The Dirty Dozen prisoner of war camp scene was filmed.
John McCain, who Trump says is not a hero, despite having been a prisoner of war.
The Naval pilot-turned-politician survived over five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Last year, Trump sparked outrage when he said about former prisoner-of-war and Arizona Sen.
McInerney argued that the method worked on McCain himself when he was a prisoner of war.
Attack John McCain for being captured and held for six years as a prisoner of war?
" In response, a questioner pointed out that killing a prisoner of war is not "American practice.
Kissinger recalled first meeting McCain after he returned from being a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Trump in 2015 dismissed McCain's time in a prisoner-of-war camp during the Vietnam War.
He spent the next five and a half years in captivity as a prisoner of war.
Detailed historical records allow investigators to locate battlefields, prisoner of war camps and aircraft crash sites.
Floyd James Thompson, a long-serving Vietnam-era prisoner of war, and his return to America.
Trump sparked bipartisan backlash after he mocked McCain's time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Trump during his campaign criticized McCain for becoming a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.
McCain's arms have limited motion since he was tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
I never heard him talk with bitterness about his five years as a prisoner of war.
Golz became a prisoner of war in Scotland and then the United States, where he learned English.
Downey is the perfect hubristic Tony Stark, an arrogant billionaire sobered by becoming a prisoner of war.
McCain on Wednesday responded to White House criticism, invoking his own story as a prisoner of war.
It's a decision he probably regrets once he winds up in a German prisoner of war camp.
The life of the former prisoner of war and 2628 presidential candidate is certainly worthy of attention.
McCain in 1967 was captured in Vietnam and held as a prisoner of war for five years.
" McCain, a former prisoner of war, quickly fired back, saying: "I've faced far greater challenges than this.
She pointed to Hawaii's Honouliuli National Monument, a World War II internment and prisoner of war camp.
On Sunday, a day after the senator and former prisoner of war succumbed to brain cancer, Gov.
Mr. McCain, whose rescue is pictured above, spent more than five years as a prisoner of war.
According to witnesses, Lenin even gave political speeches on German soil at Russian prisoner-of-war camps.
Mr. Garros was captured by Germany in 1915 and spent three years as a prisoner of war.
" But his motto, as a prisoner of war and as a runner, had been "don't give in.
Even though the office arranged the 2014 release of the only known American prisoner of war, Sgt.
His collaborators include John McCain, Arizona senator, Vietnam era prisoner of war and two-time Republican presidential candidate.
He spent 17 years there as a prisoner-of-war, with two rooms, a TV and a telephone.
He spent more than five years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam and was tortured repeatedly.
He deserted again, only to be held in Djibouti for over two years as a prisoner of war.
The former Navy pilot, Vietnam prisoner of war, and Republican presidential nominee spent 24 years as a senator.
Trump, who never served in Vietnam, once mocked McCain for getting captured and becoming a prisoner of war.
On the campaign trail he mocked a prisoner of war and a disabled journalist, for crying out loud.
Trump's counterpunch inspired widespread condemnation given McCain spent six years as prisoner of war during the Vietnam conflict.
He tells the story of when he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, he insulted every prisoner of war in American history by claiming that Sen.
Trump famously criticized the former Republican presidential candidate and Vietnam prisoner of war during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Records show that Hubert spent nearly two years as a prisoner of war at Johnson's Island in Sandusky, Ohio.
John McCain was "not a war hero," despite being captured in Vietnam and tortured as a prisoner of war.
ONE local television anchor compared the experience to being a prisoner-of-war recording a proof-of-life video.
"He's not a war hero," Trump said about McCain, who was a Vietnam veteran and a prisoner of war.
John McCain (R-Ariz.), a war hero, because he had been "caught" and imprisoned as a prisoner of war.
Mom in the other room, you getting your designated time on the giant Dell like a prisoner of war.
Trump has lambasted his political choices and mocked him for being a prisoner-of-war while fighting in Vietnam.
Noriega was granted prisoner of war status after his trial, and his sentence was later reduced to 30 years.
Steve McQueen famously jumped across the wire on a Triumph in the prisoner-of-war epic "The Great Escape".
A slave might have been a prisoner of war, or sold himself or herself to pay off a debt.
John McCain and said the veteran and Vietnam prisoner of war was not a hero because he got captured.
He spent seven years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, including more than three years in solitary confinement.
McCain is a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who is currently fighting an aggressive form of brain cancer.
MCCAIN'S RESPONDS: McCain's response to Spicer highlighted the senator's past as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.
He spent 17 years in America as a prisoner-of-war, with two rooms, a TV and a telephone.
He spent 16 months in Stalag Luft I, a prisoner of war camp in Germany reserved for Allied pilots.
McCain was serving in the Navy when he was captured and tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Bowe Bergdahl said the accused deserter should have been awarded a Purple Heart and a Prisoner of War medal.
One day, they landed on the doorstep of Bodan Litnianski, a former WWII prisoner of war, turned outsider artist.
His service to the country as an aviator and a prisoner of war deserves nothing but praise and commendation.
Tran spent the next 13 years first in North Vietnamese prisoner of war camps and then undergoing re-education.
Bowe Bergdahl, the only known American service member to be held by the insurgents as a prisoner of war.
There, I met Rita Lemmel, the daughter of a German prisoner of war, who married a French factory worker.
Kragler's homecoming after four years as a prisoner of war somewhere in Africa is not exactly greeted with celebration.
Savchenko was a uniformed soldier, and as such would normally be entitled to prisoner of war protections after capture.
In August Hitler was assigned to re-educate German soldiers who had been held in prisoner-of-war camps.
It centers on two French officers captured by a German pilot and held in a prisoner-of-war camp.
John McCain of Arizona, who was tortured himself as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, said in a statement.
For McCain, it was the beginning of an ordeal as prisoner of war that lasted more than five years.
MORE (R-Ariz.), who spent time in captivity as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, also opposed Bradbury's nomination.
"The fact is, is John McCain — it worked on John," McInerney said, referencing McCain's time as a prisoner of war.
He was an American prisoner of war, brainwashed by the communists into be an unwitting assassin against his own country.
Trump said McCain is only considered a war hero because he was captured and tortured as a prisoner of war.
Cruz never served in the military while McCain was a naval aviator and prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.
McCain was a prisoner of war for five years and went on to challenge the conventions of the Republican party.
He then spent the next five and a half years as a prisoner of war, until his release in 1973.
While fighting in the Vietnam War, he spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.
It no doubt clarified for the prisoner of war something that would become foundational for the United States Senator — leadership.
McCain served in the Navy for more than two decades and spent years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Trump, meanwhile, sparked outrage last summer by mocking John McCain for being a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.
An Opinion essay last Sunday about John McCain misstated his rank when he was a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Mr. McCain became a high-profile prisoner of war after his Navy plane was shot down over Hanoi in 1967.
A Navy officer, McCain spent almost six years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam and was tortured repeatedly.
We've been living under these conditions since they rounded us up and put us into these prisoner of war camps.
Some pundits called the McCain vote cold revenge for Mr. Trump's mockery of his ordeal as a prisoner of war.
Mr. Russell testified that the sergeant also provided valuable insights about hostage-taking and survival as a prisoner of war.
To the end, Markiv presented himself as a prisoner of war, rather than as a defendant in a criminal case.
Drafted into the Army in 1945, he was held as a prisoner of war by American and later British forces.
McCain was tortured as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War, sustaining injuries from which he has never completely recovered.
He attacked McCain for spending five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam after opposing forces shot his plane down.
John S. McCain, commander in chief of US forces in the Pacific, whose son is a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
His plane was shot down over Vietnam in 1967 and he spent 5-1/2 years as a prisoner of war.
Trump has long railed against the 2008 GOP presidential nominee and Vietnam prisoner of war, even after his death in August.
A year later, McCain was captured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and held for five-and-a-half years.
McCain, who was tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, has been a leader of anti-torture efforts in Congress.
Many of the items were evocative, from the soldiers' standard issue bread and pocket Korans to Ataturk's prisoner-of-war cap.
McCain became a prisoner of war (POW) for five years, experienced further torture, emotional abuse and endured years of solitary confinement.
Speaking of which, Dan, it turns out, is not dead at all but a living, breathing, recently freed prisoner of war.
Thorsness had previously criticized Trump for remarking that McCain wasn't a prisoner of war and he prefers soldiers who weren't captured.
He survived years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam before becoming a leading actor on the political stage for decades.
Kasich also reflected on McCain's faith, saying it kept him strong during his time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
The book transmuted the trauma Vonnegut himself suffered while witnessing the firebombing of Dresden as a prisoner of war in 1945.
During the war, Theo was taken as a prisoner of war by Allied troops, and Karl was wounded and then captured.
Speaking in a secret location in Nairobi, Musa said he had taken part in the decapitation of a prisoner of war.
He survived years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam before becoming a decades-long leading actor on the political stage.
The prisoner-of-war camp received occasional packages from American charities containing canned meat, art supplies and a few musical instruments.
Trump memorably insulted McCain, for years a prisoner of war in Vietnam, saying that he liked war heroes who weren't captured.
So a historically significant Ukrainian service member was captured and put on trial on flimsy charges, without prisoner of war protections.
Many praised Mr. McCain's congressional career, which began after he was a prisoner of war in Vietnam, where he was tortured.
The former Navy pilot, Vietnam prisoner of war, Republican presidential nominee, and 22018-year US senator leaves behind a complicated legacy.
John McCain, who passed away on August 25, was a decorated Navy bomber pilot and prisoner of war during what conflict?
He had disparaged the career of a prisoner of war and former nominee of the political party he hoped to lead.
Our family was moving from house to house almost every week, but still my father was eventually a prisoner of war.
It even shows Mr. Trump saying that Mr. McCain, a former prisoner of war, was only a hero because he was captured.
At the height of the Revolutionary War, British officers captured 13-year-old Jackson and turned him into a prisoner of war.
He was taken prisoner in the early months of the war, and spent 8+ years as a Prisoner of War in Iran.
Most memorably in 2015, Trump accused the former Vietnam prisoner of war of not being a "hero" because he had been captured.
But it was his military service, punctuated by years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, that molded his political life.
"I have a wife and two children back home," said one Kenyan prisoner of war in a recording that the Shabab released.
Trump mocked McCain during his presidential campaign for being a prisoner of war ... saying he liked war heroes who were not captured.
Tortured as a Vietnam prisoner-of-war, the maverick politician fell short of the pinnacle of politics with two failed presidential runs.
Warren praised McCain, who was a prisoner of war during Vietnam, for vocalizing that there is no "military-only solution" in Afghanistan.
His plane was shot down and he was captured and was held as a prisoner of war for more than five years.
McCain, 81, survived years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam before becoming a leading actor on the political stage for decades.
Scaramucci cautioned that continuing to attack McCain, who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam, could potentially alienate veterans who support Trump.
McCain served in US Navy until 1981, and was famously a prisoner of war at Hỏa Lò Prison, nicknamed the Hanoi Hilton.
Despite Mr Trump having denigrated his heroism as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam, however, Mr McCain is reluctantly backing the tycoon.
SUNDAY REVIEW An Opinion essay last Sunday about John McCain misstated his rank when he was a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
For this, Trump should offer the most humble apology to McCain and every American who has ever been a prisoner of war.
Some are pilots who were shot down, some are ground troops, others may be those who died in prisoner of war camps.
Gallagher was charged with stabbing a prisoner of war to death in Iraq, as well as shooting civilians with a sniper rifle.
Some are pilots who were shot down, some are ground troops, others may be those who died in prisoner-of-war camps.
During his months in captivity, Canter kept a prisoner-of-war log in which he took notes, drew sketches and preserved mementos.
In time, his exemplary service to our country as a prisoner of war will direct and inspire the survival of other P.O.W.s.
As a Naval Officer and defiant prisoner of war, John McCain stood with his brothers-in-arms until they returned home together.
Of course, this Trumpian narrative elides his deferments during the Vietnam War and mockery of John McCain's suffering as a prisoner of war.
In the final days, we were all captured and taken to simulated prisoner of war camp where we were then beaten and starved.
But a simple rejection of the gender I grew up in — as a kind of prisoner of war — doesn't work for me anymore.
John McCain, made an apparent reference to Trump's earlier criticism of her father, who was tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
He also overcame injuries suffered as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, where he endured beatings and torture by his North Vietnamese captors.
Savchenko, an ex-helicopter navigator who served time in a Russian jail as a prisoner of war, was detained in Kiev on Thursday.
The former prisoner of war stood with Democrats to release a report on the use of enhanced interrogation techniques during the Bush years.
Amelia Earhart survived what everyone thought was a fatal flight and ended up a prisoner of war ... this according to a new documentary.
While Edmure was Frey's prisoner of war fairly, we saw Jaime Lannister frustrated with his treatment — along with everything else about the Freys.
The comments from McCain were particularly notable given his past fights with Trump, who once mocked his years as a prisoner of war.
"He's not a war hero," Trump said of the Vietnam veteran, who spent more than five years a prisoner of war in Hanoi.
John McCain fought for us in Vietnam, was a prisoner of war in Vietnam, came home and dedicated his life to public service.
McCain was a prisoner of war for five and a half years in Vietnam, and refused early release because it broke with protocol.
And his party's presidential nominee, Donald Trump, has called McCain -- a Navy veteran and prisoner of war in Vietnam -- weak on veterans' issues.
Dold's uncle, the second U.S. pilot shot down in the Vietnam War, spent eight years and one day as a prisoner of war.
He was in the Army and served in World War II; he was a prisoner of war and survived the firebombing of Dresden.
And, yes, Trump has kept this line in his speech even as McCain, a prisoner of war in Vietnam, battles brain cancer. 3.
He has just returned to King's Landing from his stint as a prisoner-of-war and discovers his son/nephew Joffrey is dead.
Trump is known for frequently bashing McCain in the past, going so far as to insult his service as a prisoner of war.
Roddie Edmonds, an American prisoner of war who helped save Jewish lives during World War II. "Looking at this strongly!" the president tweeted.
Captain Laite spent four years as a prisoner of war and gave Brigadier Lawson's bracelet to the family when he returned to Canada.
The father was, in fact, a prisoner of war whose captors showed him the bodies of children who had died in the raid.
He spent years as a prisoner of war at Hoa Lo prison - or the "Hanoi Hilton", as it was known to American soldiers.
Wacker was a prisoner of war on the Eastern Front during WWI and died in 1939 from injuries sustained in a Gestapo interrogation.
"I appreciate his service in the military and certainly his time as a prisoner of war and his support for our veterans," he said.
In 1992, Perot's running mate was Admiral James Stockdale, who had survived as a North Vietnamese Prisoner of War for from 1965 to 1973.
He is the chief scientist with the Defense Department Prisoner of War and Missing in Action Accounting Agency, which is handling the identification process.
The manual said some journalists may be considered "unprivileged belligerents" — a legal category with fewer protections than combatants, such as prisoner-of-war status.
Thomas McInerney attempted to defend the use of torture by saying it "worked on" McCain when he was a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
John McCain, who was tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and has been a leading voice on the issue in the Senate.
McCain himself was tortured during his time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, during which he was forced into falsely confessing to crimes.
Trump said McCain in July 2015 was "not a war hero" because he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE (R-Ariz.) and his tenure as a prisoner of war.  .
McCain, who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam and tortured, has concerns about Haspel's role in the interrogation tactics from the Bush-era.
John McCain in private gatherings by imitating his distinctive movements, which are the result of injuries endured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Trump early in his presidential campaign ridiculed McCain's history as a prisoner of war, declaring that he liked war heroes who were not captured.
He was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam from 1967 to 1973, suffering as much torture as any American who survived the war.
Ms. Savchenko denies the allegation, and the Ukrainian government says she was abducted by Russia and should be treated as a prisoner of war.
It used to be known as "Island Behind Death," because of its history as a prisoner of war camp during WWII for the Japanese.
The continued beatings that McCain suffered while a prisoner of war left him permanently disabled and unable to raise his arms above his head.
Irina Dovgan, a Ukrainian former prisoner of war abducted in August 2014, was threatened with rape if she did not give her bank details.
As word of Hiroshima flashed across the world, O.S.S. commandos parachuted behind the lines in Manchuria to liberate the Japanese prisoner of war camps.
Among his film highlights was "Slaughterhouse-Five," the 1972 movie version of Kurt Vonnegut's novel, in which he played the prisoner of war Lazzaro.
Biden said they "were optimists" and spoke about everything except his family's recent deaths and McCain's time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
The 81-year-old was a naval aviator, prisoner of war during Vietnam, conservative statesman, presidential candidate and strong supporter of the Western alliance.
Before that, he served for 22 years in the Navy, during which time he spent several years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
He was captured during the Battle of the Bulge and spent a year as an American prisoner of war before his release in 1946.
People in town have heard the demands of Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican and a former prisoner of war, that Sergeant Bergdahl be punished.
McCain refused to be released when the North Vietnamese learned his father was a Navy admiral, and spent five years as a prisoner of war.
"It plays on (the term) prisoner of war because when you come home from combat, you're a prisoner of your own personal war," he said.
The onetime Navy fighter pilot endured 5-1/2 years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam after his aircraft was shot down over Hanoi.
Johnny Isakson said he plans to rebuke Trump's attacks on his former colleague, who was a former Navy pilot and prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Pilot Dieter Dengler, who was shot down during Vietnam and was prisoner of war before escaping, returns to Laos with Herzog to recreate his experience.
In 1967, while flying a mission during the Vietnam War he was shot down and spent more than five years as a prisoner of war.
Thomas McInerney, who Thursday on Fox Business News revived a false claim that McCain was a "song bird" when he was a prisoner of war.
He has endured a lot flagrant moments: lewd comments on "Access Hollywood", criticism of Gold Star parents, ridicule of a prisoner of war in Sen.
The Navy pilot was captured in Vietnam and held as a prisoner of war for five years after his plane was shot down in 1967.
Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE (R-Ariz.), a Vietnam War veteran and former prisoner of war.
The late Arizona Republic was held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam for years after being shot down while deployed as a naval aviator.
One week after he was cleared of murder charges, tRead more: Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher is on trial for allegedly murdering a prisoner of war.
MORE (R-Ariz.), who was tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, has asked Haspel to explain her role in the enhanced interrogation program.
The Washington Post reported Saturday that Trump has told aides that he does not regret the comment mocking McCain for being a prisoner of war.
The onetime U.S. Navy fighter pilot endured 5-1/2 years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam before embarking on a celebrated political career.
McCain was a decorated war hero who served 22 years in the Navy, including six of those years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
The attacks on Senator John McCain's stint as a prisoner of war in Vietnam were going to end any chance that they could support him.
Gallagher was acquitted in July of murdering a wounded teenage prisoner of war in Iraq, but was convicted of posing with the corpse and demoted.
CNN previously reported that the senator, who had been held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, did not want the President at his funeral.
His father, who was a Soviet prisoner of war in Siberia, hopped from job to job, an anomaly in the postwar era of lifetime employment.
Trump has said that torture "absolutely works," but McCain, a former prisoner-of-war during Vietnam, has refused to let Trump bring the practice back.
In 1942, Dotrice was taken as a prisoner of war by the Germans, where he reportedly helped keep the others with him entertained through small plays.
John McCain, who was tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, said the law is clear on the practice despite what Trump were to order.
If these are Obama's final acts of clemency that would apparently close the door on such an action for former American prisoner of war Army Sgt.
With multiple broken bones, McCain was captured by the North Vietnamese, who tortured and beat him over more than five years as a prisoner of war.
John McCain's five-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam last summer -- "I like people that weren't captured," he said -- Trump declined.
As a prisoner of war in Vietnam, he refused early release from prison and spent five-and-a-half years suffering sporadic torture and solitary confinement.
John McCain -- who spent more than five years in Vietnam as a prisoner of war -- led the successful US effort to reopen diplomatic relations with Hanoi.
McCain's core identity as a military man of distinction given his captive past as a prisoner of war was lampooned by the draft dodging Donald Trump.
Before becoming a Congressman, he served as a pilot during the Vietnam War, becoming a prisoner of war after being shot down over Hanoi in 1967.
McCain, a giant of the Senate, survived years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam to become a leading actor on the political stage for decades.
Memories of being almost hit by a car when he was 6, and of his six weeks as a prisoner of war, came back to him.
Veterans' groups expressed outrage over Trump's continued attacks on McCain, a naval aviator who spent more than five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
McCain, a giant of the Senate, survived years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam before becoming a leading actor on the political stage for decades.
He frequently attacked McCain, who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam, and during the 2016 campaign, attacked a Gold Star family who had denounced him.
McCain, a giant of the Senate, survived years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam before becoming a leading actor on the political stage for decades.
I think the worst of it was, if you're in jail, if you're in the military, if you are a prisoner of war, you have allies.
Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE (R-Ariz.), who was a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.
The Washington Post reported on Sunday that Trump decided against issuing a statement praising McCain's Senate career and military service as a Vietnam prisoner of war.
Mr. Cronauer was active in veterans' causes and, from 2001 to 2009, was an adviser to the Defense Department's Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Office.
Bowe Bergdahl, the American prisoner of war who had been kidnapped by the Taliban after he walked off his base, was negotiated through the Doha office.
The rationale behind his political career was always his personal story: son and grandson of admirals, Annapolis, naval aviator and finally long-term prisoner of war.
McCain, a prisoner of war in Vietnam, longtime U.S. senator from Arizona and 2008 Republican presidential nominee, died of brain cancer on Saturday at age 81.
Critics have ascribed the authenticity of Robert Bresson's "A Man Escaped" (on Friday and July 2) to the director's memory of being a prisoner of war.
And after being seriously wounded in fighting in Kiev, he was taken to a prisoner-of-war hospital and later to a concentration camp in Minsk.
Mr. McCain took a personal interest in the ship, visiting it in 2015 in Vietnam, where he had been held as a prisoner of war. Cmdr.
Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist John McCain's most courageous moment arguably did not come when he was near death as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.
Drafted into the French Army during World War II, he was captured in Belgium in 1940 and spent five years as a German prisoner of war.
Pierre Schoendoerffer was a war photographer in what was known as Indochina in the early '50s, and was a prisoner of war at Dien Bien Phu.
While ultimately acquitted of most charges, he was accused of killing a prisoner of war with a hunting knife and firing his sniper rifle at civilians.
McCain, who himself was tortured by the North Vietnamese when he was a prisoner of war, articulated that distinction better than anyone else in public life.
Captured by Allied troops, he was sent to a prisoner of war camp on the East Coast of the United States, remaining there for seven months.
It turns out that people generally admire McCain, a former prisoner of war, and kicking a man who's in the grave didn't earn Trump any admiration.
Gallagher, who was acquitted of murdering a teenage prisoner of war in Iraq, was demoted after being found guilty of posing for photographs with the body.
McCain, a decorated Navy veteran, former prisoner of war in Vietnam and GOP presidential nominee, is in stable condition after surgery Monday for an intestinal infection.
Both Hillary Clinton, Obama's main opponent in the Democratic primaries, and McCain, the Republican nominee and a former prisoner of war in North Vietnam, endorsed it.
The actors delivered their lines with the enthusiasm of of a prisoner of war being forced to tape a renouncement of their home country at gunpoint.
So Eugene stayed silent, and when Negan sent him off to check on his prisoner of war Father Gabriel, mullet-head walked straight into his redemption storyline.
She believes Trump's recent days-long feud with the Gold Star Khan family, and his belittling last summer of former prisoner-of-war McCain, have provided openings.
McCain, who was beaten as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War, has urged colleagues to reject the nominee over her past role in CIA interrogations.
Based on that, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta found the Arizona senator former prisoner-of-war in Vietnam, then 72, to be in good health.
MORE (R-Ariz.), a Vietnam prisoner of war, noted that that torture would be illegal, and that Defense secretaries are beholden to the Constitution, not the president.
John McCain for being a prisoner of war and his less-than-full-throated rejection of white nationalists who support him, have led him away from Trump.
McCain has previously battled back from injuries suffered during his time as a prisoner of war, and has had non-invasive melanomas removed at least three times.
He survived years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam before rising to become a giant of the Senate and a leading actor on the political stage.
Trump said McCain, who was tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and who refused early release, was not a war hero because he was captured.
During the war he was captured by American soldiers while serving in the Wehrmacht's Afrika Korps in Tunisia and held as a prisoner of war in Kansas.
In his final years, the former prisoner of war pressed for more veterans in elected office, noting that military service and its common bonds helped boost bipartisanship.
Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE's (R-Ariz.) time as a prisoner of war as reason to reject him.
Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE, as being weak for getting caught as a prisoner of war in Vietnam?
The book's main character, Leni Allbright, is the daughter of a beautiful hippie mother, Cora, and a father, Ernt, who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
However, Russia pretends it's not actually at war in eastern Ukraine, which means it's treating Savchenko more like a common criminal rather than a prisoner of war.
On Sunday, leaders of both political parties and foreign dignitaries praised Mr. McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who represented Arizona in Congress for decades.
McCain, battling brain cancer, is a war hero who endured torture as a prisoner of war in Vietnam; no bone-spur, war-evading rich Queens kid he.
"The president can sign whatever executive orders he likes," said Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, who was tortured as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.
McCain retired from the Navy the following year after he failed his flight physical, a result of his injuries as a prisoner-of-war in North Vietnam.
When Trump said, "I like the people who weren't captured," referring to John McCain's experience as a prisoner of war, that should have been it for him.
And attacking a dead man who spent five years as a prisoner of war and another three decades serving the country in elected office, is simply wrong.
Trump also took aim at McCain himself, saying he was "not a war hero" despite the 5½ years McCain spent as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Historians had described how the SS recruited Eastern European civilians as well as Soviet soldiers who had been captured and sent to German prisoner-of-war camps.
On his last time evacuating a Sherman tank, he took shrapnel from a German stick grenade in his leg and was captured as a prisoner of war.
One veteran in particular recalled a harrowing story of being captured by the Germans as a prisoner of war after he was injured in a bombing mission.
The feud started during in 2015, during the last presidential campaign, when Trump questioned whether McCain was a war hero since he was a prisoner of war.
Trump has previously attacked McCain's record of service, saying the Vietnam veteran and one-time prisoner of war is "not a war hero" because he was captured.
Gallagher, who was acquitted of murdering a teenage prisoner of war in Iraq, was demoted after being found guilty of posing for photographs with the POW's body.
Gallagher, who was acquitted of murdering a teenage prisoner of war in Iraq, was demoted after being found guilty of posing for photographs with the body. Rep.
On "Hogan's Heroes," a comedy improbably set in a German prisoner-of-war camp in World War II, Mr. Fox returned several times as the bumbling Col.
In the first season of "Homeland," Damian Lewis played Nicholas Brody, a prisoner of war who returns to the United States as a trained assassin for overseas terrorists.
The McCain bashing is even worse, Scarborough said, considering the senator is a veteran who spent five and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
He had mocked Senator [John] McCain, one of my son's heroes, for suffering through years in a prisoner-of-war camp, years Trump spent avoiding the war altogether.
The official testified in 2015 that Bergdahl was "skin over bones" and had been subjected to worse conditions than any American prisoner of war since the Vietnam War.
Another Republican senator, John McCain, who was tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, also had questions about Haspel, but did not say he would oppose her.
During the Republican primary, Trump said that McCain "was not a hero," despite the fact that he spent over five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
On the other, he is also going after a genuine war hero in McCain, who was a prisoner of war for five and a half years in Vietnam.
McCain was brutally tortured by the North Vietnamese during the five and a half years he spent in captivity as a prisoner of war, from 248 to 212.
Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE's (R-Ariz.) status as a war hero because he was a prisoner of war.
Flake said he has spoken to McCain, who was tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, about the nomination last week, and is still weighing Haspel's nomination.
McCain survived years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam before rising to become a maverick of the Republican Party and a leading actor on the political stage.
While he was running for president, Trump, when discussing McCain's extraordinary heroism as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, said that he prefers soldiers who were never captured.
Trump on the campaign trail in 2015 famously said he didn't believe McCain, who spent five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, was a war hero.
As a seminarian during the war, John Paul helped save a Jewish girl; Benedict, after deserting the German Army, was briefly interned in a prisoner-of-war camp.
But his administration would hope for support from Republican U.S. Senator John McCain, a decorated former prisoner of war in North Vietnam who backed the 2014 partial lifting.
He claimed that Mr. McCain, a former prisoner of war, was "last in his class" at the Naval Academy, when Mr. McCain actually graduated fifth from the bottom.
At the same time, and despite his brutal treatment as a prisoner of war, he strongly supported Secretary of State John Kerry's efforts to normalize relations with Vietnam.
Gallagher's recent acquittal on most charges stemming from the murder of a teenage prisoner of war in Iraq drew widespread attention because of Trump's defense of his actions.
McCain, who was diagnosed with brain cancer in July, served in the Navy for more than two decades and spent years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
The two feuded during Trump's presidential campaign; at one point, Trump mocked McCain for being a prisoner of war, saying he liked war heroes who were not captured.
Dick Churchill, the last living participant in a daring breakout from a German prisoner-of-war camp that inspired the 19453 movie "The Great Escape," died on Feb.
Gallagher is accused of stabbing to death a wounded Islamic State prisoner of war and attempting to shoot innocent civilians with his sniper rifle near Mosul in 2017.
Anti-Trump veterans will hand out T-shirts for the USS John McCain in order to troll Trump, who has belittled the dead senator and former prisoner of war.
" Then, in a speech in Lima, Ohio, on Wednesday, Trump took yet another shot at the former Arizona senator and prisoner of war, saying he's "never liked him much.
The veteran US senator, who spent five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam as a young Navy pilot, had been diagnosed with brain cancer in July 22008.
A waterbending prisoner of war develops bloodbending as a way to release herself from prison—then uses it to kidnap innocent Fire Nation villagers as a form of retribution.
By the end of the war, more than 400,000 enemy prisoners had been sent to America, housed in over five hundred Prisoner of War camps scattered throughout the country.
Bergdahl's lawyer said the Army should allow him to wear four decorations, including the Purple Heart and Prisoner of War Medal, as part of his uniform for the proceedings.
In 73 B.C.E., a prisoner of war forced to join a gladiator school named Spartacus led a rebellion with seventy other gladiators against the slave-owning oligarchy of Rome.
Jeb Bush's campaign has selected a prisoner of war detained with John McCain to rally voters in Iowa on behalf of his candidacy Monday night, The Hill has learned.
He was a victim of torture himself during his time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, where he was brutally beaten and forced into falsely confessing to crimes.
But the final straw for Anonymous was the president's reaction to the death of Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican, former prisoner of war and nemesis of the president's.
"  Trump drew widespread blowback when he said McCain, who was held captive as a prisoner of war in Vietnam for more than five years, was "not a war hero.
John McCain, who had never before taken the bait following Trump's denigration last year of torment as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, issued a long and moving statement.
The rest of Ms. Millard's book — about Churchill's time as a prisoner of war, his audacious escape, the outcome of the conflict — are as involving as a popcorn thriller.
Among the reasons for the low numbers of veterans receiving health care at the VA are eligibility requirements, such as income level, disability, or former prisoner of war status.
Throughout the entire process, Trump demonstrated support for Gallagher, a decorated US warfighter who was charged with stabbing a prisoner of war to death and shooting civilians in Iraq.
Louie detailed the data points he had learned from his father, a former Senate staff member, about Mr. McCain's five and a half years as a prisoner of war.
Through pivotal moments in his life — as a prisoner of war, a young congressman, a presidential candidate, and, ultimately, an elder statesman — that reputation was both validated and challenged.
Her father had been a prisoner of war, captured by the Germans in World War II, and the trauma of what he witnessed shaped his worldview and his work.
The Bible -- which belonged to a World War II prisoner of war -- was initially removed from a memorial table following a complaint by the group Military Religious Freedom Foundation.
No, this one's on Trump, who practices such gratuitous cruelty — he once mocked McCain's agonizing years as a prisoner of war — and leaves nothing but scorched earth behind him.
Some of Trump's most explosive remarks in his campaign came early on in July 2015, when he mocked the senator's time as a tortured prisoner of war in Vietnam.
It was a war that McCain fought in as a naval aviator until he was shot down and held as a prisoner of war for more than five years.
McCain, who won his party's presidential nomination in 2008, stood by Trump for months despite withering criticism, including comments mocking his time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Camp Chase was originally established in 1861 as a training camp for Union soldiers, but soon became a prisoner of war camp, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
MORE. The Arizona Republican, who was tortured while a prisoner of war in Vietnam, has long been one of the loudest opponents of the interrogation program in the Senate.
McCain, who survived nearly six years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam and served 31 years in the Senate, died after a yearlong fight against brain cancer.
MORE (R-Ariz.) — a man whose courage President Trump once mocked because McCain got caught and became a prisoner of war when he was shot down over North Vietnam.
The senator uniquely qualified to bear witness against torture is John McCain, the Arizona Republican, who spent five and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
A few days later, Trump fired back at McCain, who was a prisoner of war for over five years in the Vietnam War, taking digs at his war record.
" The New York businessman hit back, saying of McCain's 5-1/2 years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam: "He was a war hero because he was captured.
The filmmakers also flew to Vietnam to highlight the more than five years McCain spent as a prisoner of war, and where he was tortured and spent time in solitary.
As he got to know McCain and learned about what the senator had endured as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War, Fitzgerald became motivated to travel there himself.
Dubbed "Operation Vito," the 93-year-old veteran and prisoner of war was awarded a high school diploma at Becton Regional High School in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Wednesday night.
During the campaign, Mr. Trump said he did not consider Vietnam Veteran, and Prisoner of War, Senator John McCain to be 'a hero' because he likes people who weren't captured.
MORE (R-Ariz.), including a decision to not immediately order the White House flag to remain at half-staff for the former Vietnam prisoner of war and GOP presidential nominee.
McCain was tortured for years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, where he refused preferential release because he did not want to leave his fellow prisoners of war behind.
McCain, who was tortured while a prisoner of war in Vietnam, successfully championed a provision in this year's defense policy bill that banned brutal interrogation techniques widely criticized as torture.
The clash also shows that when the President thinks he has been attacked -- by McRaven, a senior former intelligence chief, or a former prisoner of war like the late Sen.
McCain, a decorated Vietnam War hero, former prisoner of war and six-term senator, died Saturday afternoon at his home in Arizona a year after being diagnosed with brain cancer.
McCain, who was tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, had released a statement after CIA nominee Gina Haspel's Senate confirmation hearing, denouncing her for refusing to condemn torture.
On Saturday evening, the White House flag had been positioned at half-staff to mark the death of McCain, the former Vietnam prisoner of war and onetime Republican presidential nominee.
As Mr. McCain was lying in state, his immediate family and Arizona political leaders paid tribute to the naval aviator, who endured torture as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Mr. Garritano, a retired Army specialist, had served in Vietnam, but his time in the country overlapped with only a fraction of Mr. McCain's time as a prisoner of war.
Ms. Sadler's comment came on the same day a retired Air Force three-star general went on Fox Business Network to deride Mr. McCain's conduct as a prisoner of war.
They are nothing, if not resourceful, and display a trait that the president says is — unlike former prisoner of war Senator John McCain — the mark of a true war hero.
The Navy veteran, who survived years of torture as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, will be laid to rest Sunday at the U.S. Naval Academy cemetery in Annapolis, Maryland.
At a July 2015 campaign appearance, Trump told the Family Leadership Summit that he likes "people who weren't captured," referring to McCain's time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE's status as a prisoner of war by suggesting that he preferred service personnel "who weren't captured"?
Handelsblatt said its team of reporters had scoured archives in Germany and Austria and found no evidence that the Nazis incarcerated him or that he was a prisoner of war.
During World War II, the British used artillery forts and a battery on the island to unsuccessfully fend off a Japanese invasion, which transformed it into a prisoner-of-war camp.
As a naval pilot, he was deployed on the USS Forrestal to the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam, where he was ultimately taken as a prisoner of war in October 20153.
Why it matters: McCain was held and tortured as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War, and he has spoken numerous times about addressing the human rights issues in Vietnam.
"That lack of a welcome home is still a national shame," said Senator John McCain, a Vietnam veteran who, because he was a prisoner of war, did receive a hero's welcome.
The Russian authorities say she then escaped from her captors and slipped into Russia posing as a refugee; Lieutenant Savchenko said she was taken to Russia as a prisoner of war.
On Thursday, a guest on Fox Business Network also took aim at the senator, claiming that torture "worked on" him when he was held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Those who were refused compensation included Lieutenant Bertram James, a British officer who was involved in the celebrated "great escape" from the Luftwaffe-run prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft III.
" D'Souza's tweet relates to the senator's five years as a prisoner of war (POW) in Vietnam, which was enough to set off Meghan McCain, a Fox News co-host of "Outnumbered.
One of Trump's first shocking moments in his rise to the GOP nomination was his statement at a 2015 political event in Iowa mocking McCain's time as a prisoner of war.
He was accused of killing a prisoner of war with a hunting knife and firing his sniper rifle at citizens, including a woman in a flower hijab and an elderly man.
Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE (R-Ariz.), a war hero, because he had been "caught" and imprisoned as a prisoner of war.
The Vietnam prisoner of war and six-term senator, who died from brain cancer on Saturday, will join only 31 people in 166 years to lie in state at the Capitol.
If a protester and a prisoner of war can find common ground on the most divisive of issues, finding common ground on almost anything else didn't seem so hard after all.
While serving in the French Army, he was captured by German troops in 1940 and spent several months in a prisoner of war camp near Munich before escaping with a cousin.
This World War II film stars Alec Guinness as a British colonel in a Japanese prisoner of war camp who must oversee the building of a bridge to aid Japanese forces.
Anthony C. Acevedo's four children and two grandchildren escorted his flag-draped coffin as he came to rest at Riverside National Cemetery before the Prisoner of War Missing in Action Memorial.
In the case of McCain, Trump has long questioned whether the senator — who was held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam for five years — should be categorized as a hero.
McCain, who survived nearly six years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, succeeded Barry Goldwater to represent Arizona in the Senate, lost a White House bid to freshman Sen.
John McCain, who was tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, wrote a letter to Haspel demanding she explain in detail her exact role in the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" program.
Indeed, McCain, who was tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, wrote a letter to Haspel demanding she explain in detail her exact role in the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" program.
Trump said US soldier Bowe Bergdahl, who had been held as a prisoner of war for years in Afghanistan, should be shot for desertion after he walked off his base in 2009.
In one legend, a prisoner of war in the Civil War implored a jail guard to give him a pickle, and when the guard complied, the pickle inspired the soldier to live.
"Not fit to polish John McCain's boots," one retired Navy admiral said, citing Trump's assertion that the 2008 Republican nominee was no hero because he was a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
In that extraordinary case, one man contacted the bacteria after being taken as prisoner of war by the Japanese in World War II, and had no idea for the next six decades.
It was occupied by the Earls of Gosfard until 1921, when it was used during the Second World War to accommodate troops and hold a prisoner of war camp on the property.
McCain, who was tortured while held in Vietnam as a prisoner of war, successfully championed a provision in this year's defense policy bill that banned brutal interrogation techniques widely criticized as torture.
A Vietnam War veteran decided to give his military medallion to Cindy McCain as she left an Arizona funeral home following the death of her husband, decorated Vietnam prisoner of war Sen.
Numerous colleagues and politicians took to social media to mourn McCain, who survived years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam before becoming a leading actor on the political stage for decades.
She recently ripped a report in September that the president physically mocked her father, who has physical limitations due to injuries sustained while a prisoner of war in Vietnam, behind closed doors.
On Wednesday, McCain, who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam and was tortured by his captors, issued a statement urging his fellow senators to vote against Gina Haspel for CIA director.
In August, defense lawyers asked to have the charges against the former prisoner of war dismissed, arguing comments made by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain violated his due process rights.
A McCain family source told PEOPLE that the family did not want Trump to attend after his years of insulting and mocking the Arizona Republican, Vietnam veteran and former prisoner of war.
When the political season started, Trump was not given much chance to win the nomination after what appeared to be serious early stumbles, including mocking McCain for being a prisoner of war.
Following in his father's and grandfather's footsteps, he served in the Navy, was a prisoner of war in Vietnam, served in the US Senate for 30 years, and ran for president twice.
Tony: My father spent three months in a Nazi prisoner of war camp in World War II in order to fight for our liberties and freedoms and never see this country backpedal.
In its most successful episode, Chester confronts a Japanese prisoner of war who taunts, threatens, and ultimately bonds with him over their shared love of baseball and their exhaustion with the battlefront.
How to Get Away and possibly help a Murderer In his boarding school days, Harris and his friends loved prisoner of war movies, because they felt like they could relate, he says.
This is what the Eastern Sierras conjure for me now: Walking the dusty path at the internment camp of Manzanar with a beloved man who looked, himself, like a prisoner of war.
Yulia (center) embraces her husband, Olexander Korinkov, a Ukrainian soldier and prisoner of war who was released after a prisoner exchange upon his arrival at Boryspil International Airport, outside Kyiv, Dec. 29.
McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who ran for president in 2008 as a self-styled maverick Republican and became a prominent critic of President Donald Trump, died on Saturday.
Trump traveled to Fort Drum, home of the Army's 21th Mountain Division, in upstate New York to sign the bill, which was named in honor of former Vietnam prisoner of war Sen.
Lapan said he thinks those topics have had more resonance with troops than some of the controversies early in Trump&aposs presidency, like his public spats with former prisoner of war Sen.
McCain spent more than five years as a prisoner of war in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" during the Vietnam War, and once refused to be let go because his comrades remained imprisoned.
McCain, the unsuccessful 2008 Republican presidential nominee, was shot down during the Vietnam War and tortured by his North Vietnamese Communist captors during more than five years as a prisoner of war.
John McCain's "wicked sense of humor" and the time, on one of many trips with McCain, when the two visited the cell in Vietnam where McCain was detained as a prisoner of war.
The first was Jack Mohr, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and former prisoner of war in Korea who ran his own Christian Identity paramilitary group, recruiting through his publication The Christian Patriot Crusader.
The participants included the families of a prisoner of war and five people abducted by North Korean authorities during the conflict, though the six South Koreans they had hoped to meet had died.
As part of an extradition deal in April 2010 and signed by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, France agreed to hold a new trial and to uphold Noriega's prisoner of war status.
The Burmese knew that their regal prisoner of war was the best fighter in Siam (Thailand's old name), and they routinely matched him up against their own champion fighters in bare-knuckle matches.
More than three decades later, Ms. Laforêt revealed publicly that she had been raped by a neighbor that year, more than once, while her father was in a German prisoner-of-war camp.
This is, after all, an election cycle when Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, belittled Senator John McCain of Arizona, a former prisoner of war and the 2008 Republican presidential nominee.
Probably no one is more torn than Senator John McCain, whose unassailable record of heroism as a prisoner of war was mocked by Mr. Trump, and who has a solid pro-immigration record.
Seemingly minutes later, carefully cut videos started zinging around the Internet, analyzing every movement of Mr. Christie's eyes, head and fingers for signs of duress, as if he were a prisoner of war.
The two men feuded since then-candidate Trump hit the campaign trail, denouncing McCain's service in the Vietnam War, where he was tortured as a prisoner of war for more than five years.
Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona and a former prisoner of war, insisted that during the confirmation process, Ms. Haspel must "explain the nature and extent of her involvement" in the interrogation program.
Before, during and after the marriage, there were other men: the German prisoner of war; the married antiques dealer; the fat physics professor; the married American medical student; the single American urban planner.
During World War II, an area on the edge of Rosebank was a prisoner-of-war camp for Italian soldiers, according to "Discovering Staten Island: A 350th Anniversary Commemorative History" (History Press, 2011).
Pereverzev's evidence, which involved a contract Lenin was alleged to have signed in Berlin at some time in the previous year, turned out to be the raving of a fugitive prisoner of war.
His sentence was reduced by 10 years, and he was later declared a prisoner of war, allowing him access to a telephone, more visiting hours and even a small salary, among other perks.
Sen. John McCain, who survived nearly six years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, succeeded Barry Goldwater to represent Arizona in the Senate, lost a White House bid to freshman Sen.
McCain, the unsuccessful 2008 Republican presidential nominee, was shot down during the Vietnam War and tortured by his North Vietnamese captors during more than five years in captivity as a prisoner of war.
McCain, the unsuccessful 2008 Republican presidential nominee, was shot down during the Vietnam War and tortured by his North Vietnamese Communist captors during more than five years in captivity as a prisoner of war.
The former prisoner of war and defense hawk went after Mulvaney with a series of questions about Mulvaney's voting record to reduce defense budgets and withdraw troops from overseas -- including all troops from Afghanistan.
In 2015, Trump attacked McCain -- who had been a prisoner of war in Vietnam -- as "not a war hero" and again criticized the senator from Arizona after he died of brain cancer last August.
After the Senate Intelligence Committee delivered a report in 2014 detailing the brutality of torture used by the CIA, however, many members of the defense community, as well as former prisoner of war Sen.
As legend has it, John Van Arsdale, an American former prisoner of war, finally managed to climb a flagpole mischievously greased by the British and replace the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.
In 2015, Trump attacked McCain -- who had been held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam -- as "not a war hero" and again criticized McCain after he died of brain cancer in August 2018.
MORE, a giant of the Senate who survived years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam to become a leading actor on the political stage for decades, died Saturday at the age of 81.
In the letter, which was published by Sports Illustrated, Fitzgerald recalls a 2013 visit to Vietnam, where he toured the places where McCain was tortured as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.
John McCain (R-AZ), who spent more than five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, has also said Haspel needs to "explain the nature and extent of her involvement" in the program.
No one else could talk about the need to ban torture with the authority of Mr. McCain, who had been tortured during his more than five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
To the Editor: Senator John McCain was a major American figure — Navy pilot, noble prisoner of war, congressman, senator and presidential nominee — a splendid American and in many ways a model for us all.
Trump, who did not serve in the military himself, has previously attacked McCain's record of service, saying the Vietnam veteran and former prisoner of war is "not a war hero" because he was captured.
In the Declaration exhibit, there's a busk, a piece of wood that stiffens a dress bodice, carved with revolutionary symbolism by an American prisoner of war held on a prison ship in Nova Scotia.
Rosenbaum expected Reimer would tell a good story, how he only handled money at the Trawniki training camp, better to cooperate than to starve in a prisoner-of-war camp for captured Soviet soldiers.
How does the beneficiary of a draft deferment due to bone spurs on his feet get away with questioning the military record of John McCain, who endured five years as a prisoner of war?
The two forged a bond in youth that withstood the test of time, personal and family sacrifice and, in McCain's case, spending more than five years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.
Johnson, who usually moves about the Capitol on a scooter wheel chair, was a prisoner of war for nearly seven years in Vietnam and shared a prison cell with McCain for part of it.
Mr. Dillard said he was inspired to persevere by his hero, Senator John McCain of Arizona, a former prisoner of war who, at age 81, is battling cancer while continuing to serve his country.
"She was a wounded warrior, a prisoner of war and a disabled veteran," said Jennifer Minus, a DAR official who first learned about Corbin when she was a West Point cadet in the early '90s.
At an election campaign appearance in Iowa in 2015, Trump responded to criticism from McCain by denigrating the senator's military service, which included 5 1/2-years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads OAKLAND — As the daughter of a World War II veteran and prisoner of war, for years, I witnessed the generational trauma and effects of the war on my father.
McCain, who has brain cancer and recently revealed his prognosis is "very poor," also suffers from lifelong injuries sustained during his time as a prisoner of war and cannot lift his arms above his shoulders.
His legacy is perhaps a complicated one, given the span of his life: He was a former Navy pilot, Vietnam prisoner of war, Republican presidential nominee, and spent 30 years as a United States senator.
Sitting before an audience in Iowa in July 2015, Trump argued that McCain, who spent five years as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War, was not a war hero because he was captured.
With a 30-year tenure in Congress, not to mention his 2008 presidential run, McCain's legacy as a former prisoner of war turned public servant has long been revered and rehashed time and time again.
While there was general pushback in the Senate, some observers said the GOP's criticism of the commander in chief did not match the authoritative voice of McCain, who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
It tells every veteran, every prisoner of war, and every service member that their service can be belittled by the partisan spewing of any desperate politician who never joined the military because of achy heels.
Ricoeur was orphaned when his father was killed in World War I. While serving in the French military, he was captured by the Germans in 1940 and spent five years as a prisoner of war.
Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE (R-Ariz.), who was a prisoner of war and chairs the Armed Services Committee, spoke out on the issue last week.
The longtime senator and storied prisoner of war also said he was grateful to be able to celebrate his life and draw upon memories, including his underdog bid in 2000 for the Republican presidential nomination.
" Sadler's remark about the Arizona Republican echoed Trump's remark at the outset of his campaign for president, when he mocked McCain's time as a prisoner of war by saying, "I like people that weren't captured.
John McCain is recovering from cancer treatment in his home state and, as someone who himself was tortured while he was a prisoner of war, is among the most passionate advocates against torture in Congress.
McCain, a former prisoner of war who dominated the political stage and was widely respected across party lines, died Saturday at age 81 following a months-long battle with an aggressive form of brain cancer.
A Navy veteran and a former prisoner of war, Mr. McCain was part of a long-term study in the military health system, so many of the relevant records really were all in one place.
Trump has repeatedly mocked McCain, from saying the senator was "not a war hero" because he was a prisoner of war in Vietnam, to avoiding saying his name while signing a bill named after him.
In the first five pages alone she contemplates EST seminars, the I.R.A., Watergate, the Munich Olympics massacre, the kidnapping of Patty Hearst and, of course, Vietnam, where her father, Ernt, was a prisoner of war.
During the Republican primary in 20163, Trump took direct shots at McCain's time as a prisoner of war but still went on to win veterans in the national election by a whopping 26-point margin.
McCain, who died at the age of 81 last month from brain cancer, was a naval aviator, Vietnam veteran, a prisoner of war, a two-time presidential candidate and a six-term senator for Arizona.
Washington (CNN)Meghan McCain on Thursday defended her father, who was a Vietnam prisoner of war, against an attack from Liz Cheney, who tried justifying the CIA's enhanced interrogation program under her father's vice presidency.
"Our nation has a moral obligation to protect those Afghans whose lives are in imminent danger today because they supported American troops and diplomats," McCain, a former Vietnam prisoner of war, said in a statement.
At the time, Trump had insulted John McCain on the campaign trail during the Republican primary race, claiming the Arizona senator was only a war hero because he had been captured as a prisoner of war.
During his 2008 campaign, aides had to comb his hair, as he still cannot lift his arms above his head -- thanks to injuries that date from his plane crash and years as a prisoner of war.
Sam JohnsonSamuel (Sam) Robert JohnsonLobbying world Social Security is approaching crisis territory Texas New Members 2628 MORE, a decorated U.S. fighter pilot and Vietnam prisoner of war, is defending his Dallas-area seat against three rivals.
Her listeners included the Navy pilot John McCain, the future United States senator, who was a prisoner of war in Hanoi for five and a half years after his plane was shot down in October 1967.
He said the remains are "good candidates to be missing Americans from the Korean War," where thousands died on battlefields and in prisoner-of-war camps during the 1950-53 conflict and remain officially unaccounted for.
Among his best-known early movies was "Stalag 17," the celebrated 1953 Billy Wilder dark comedy set in a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, in which he played the barracks chief Sgt.
Prisoner-of-war-style detention, lasting until the end of hostilities, was developed during wars between uniform-wearing armies as a more humane means of preventing enemy captives from returning to the battlefield than slaughtering them.
It was striking enough that Mr. McCain, held and tortured for five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, returned dangerously sick to the Capitol to help put a health care bill over the line.
" In the letter, McCain, a formal naval aviator who was held as a prisoner of war during Vietnam, wrote that "God blessed me with the company heroes and it was all the difference in my life.
But they also include the prayers that carried him through his torment as a prisoner of war, and helped him through his life journey as he sought to reconcile his mistakes with his heroic public image.
As a presidential candidate, Trump, who did not serve in the military himself, attacked McCain's record of service, saying the Vietnam veteran and former prisoner of war is "not a war hero" because he was captured.
Returning from a German prisoner of war camp in 1946, he unpacked his father's machinery, mothballed during the war, resumed production and advertised the Moka Express nationally on billboards, newspapers, magazines and radio, and eventually on television.
John McCain, the Republican candidate for the White House in 2008, who was tortured while being held as a prisoner of war by the North Vietnamese, has condemned the purely "transactional" approach to foreign policy as "dangerous".
A Russian government airplane flew them from Kiev to Moscow, where their wives greeted them on the tarmac, avoiding the spectacle typical of prisoner-of-war exchanges of the captives walking past one another, suggesting an equivalency.
Boone, a former B-24 pilot who was shot out of the sky and held as a prisoner of war by the Nazis during his service, traveled to Washington, D.C. from North Carolina on an Honor Flight.
Who could possibly not be inspired by the horrific details of his time as a prisoner of war and his insistence that he not be released before all of his fellow prisoners were given the same opportunity?
McCain has been part of collective national consciousness for the better part of the last five decades -- ever since his capture and ultimate release five years later (in March 1973) from a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp.
Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE's (R-Ariz.) time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam to Trump's willingness to defend the size of his manhood in a debate.
Green in November ordered a peer evaluation of Gallagher, who had been demoted and charged with war crimes, including the murder of an ISIS prisoner of war and the shooting of two people in Iraq in 2017.
She remembered how her father bore his suffering from injuries received as a Vietnam prisoner of war with the "stoic silence that was once the mark of an American man," in another apparent jab at the President.
And everyone who knew anything assumed that attacking McCain's five years spent as a prisoner of war in Vietnam -- a time that left the Arizona Republican with lifelong wounds -- was a death sentence of Trump's political ambitions.
After returning home from the Korean War, former prisoner of war Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) is reunited with his mother (Angela Lansbury) and his stepfather, a punchline of a politician hoping to make it to the White House.
"Ogre" (published in England as "The Erl-King"), the twisting story of a French prisoner of war who ends up procuring boys for an elite Hitler youth camp, won France's top literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, in 1970.
"While our party has bestowed upon him the nomination, it is not accompanied by unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us," said McCain, a prisoner of war for five years during the Vietnam War.
McCain, a former Republican presidential nominee who is the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, had a troubled relationship with Trump, who early in his campaign criticized the senator for having been a prisoner of war during Vietnam.
Trump, in widely criticized remarks from shortly after he launched his presidential bid, insisted McCain was "not a war hero" because he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam for more than five years.
Mr. Agha led efforts to open the Taliban's political office in Qatar in 2011, and he was instrumental in negotiations that led to the release of the last known American prisoner of war held by the Taliban, Sgt.
The bad blood between Trump and McCain dates back to 1999, when the then-business mogul questioned the former naval aviator's record during the Vietnam War, when McCain spent more than five years as a prisoner of war.
In this Season 10 premiere, Jon Cryer ("Two and a Half Men") heads to Boston and learns of an ancestor who was a prisoner of war and forced to come to the United States as an indentured servant.
WASHINGTON — For more than three decades, Senator John McCain, who was brutally tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, has been a powerful and persuasive voice in Congress on matters of interrogation and the conduct of war.
Fantasia was captured in Rodalbe, France, in 1944 while tending to a wounded sergeant and lieutenant in a foxhole and was held as a prisoner of war until he was liberated by Russian forces on April 28, 1945.
McCain, who has died at the age of 22014, was a naval bomber pilot, prisoner of war, conservative maverick, giant of the Senate, twice-defeated presidential candidate and an abrasive American hero with a twinkle in his eye.
For nearly 21995 years after World War II, virtually no one outside of her family knew that she was a highly decorated Coast Guard veteran and a former prisoner of war whose exploits had been buried in time.
" Trump made clear he viewed McCain as an opponent in 2015, when he belittled the senator's five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam by questioning McCain's "war hero" status, saying, "I like people who don't get captured.
He's also not shied away from attacking military heroes for political gain: He can't let go of his feud with John McCain -- even though the Arizona senator, Vietnam prisoner of war and war hero died nearly a year ago.
During his time in the Navy, he earned two Silver Stars, two Legions of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross, three Bronze Star Medals, two Purple Hearts, two Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals, and a Prisoner of War Medal.
The gesture is a fitting tribute to the man who volunteered to serve the country in a time of war, and who spent more than five years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, friends of McCain say.
This year's Senate bill was named after six-term Senator John McCain, the Armed Services Committee's Republican chairman and Vietnam War prisoner of war, who has been absent from Washington all year as he undergoes treatment for brain cancer.
And when the war broke out and she was incarcerated in a prisoner of war camp for three and a half years, the one thing she managed to take into the camp was a book of all her recipes.
McCain, calling the naval war veteran and former prisoner of war "not a war hero," and mimicking the limited mobility McCain has in his arms — a remnant of his five years of captivity and torture by the North Vietnamese.
He is not only outspoken on the world stage, he also has moral authority after having been brutally tortured for much of the five and a half years he was held as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.
He served our country with valor, risking his life in combat, and when he was a prisoner of war being tortured in the "Hanoi Hilton," risking his life again by refusing early release when his torturing captors offered it.
Clanging, echoey guitars gradually give way to a drum pattern that would sound surprisingly breezy were it not for the hollowed out percussion in use and what sounds like the repeated howl of a prisoner of war being tortured.
In a poignant speech to his Senate colleagues informed by his own experiences as a naval aviator and prisoner of war, Senator John McCainJohn Sidney McCain3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Fighter pilot vs.
His father, Nicholas Katzenbach (1922-2012), was a formidable man who spent nearly three years in a prisoner-of-war camp in World War II. He graduated from Princeton and was a Yale and University of Chicago law professor.
The two color drawings, both portraits — one of his wife, Edith, done in gouache and crayon (217), and the other of a Russian prisoner of war, in gouache and pencil (1915) — were purchased in 1917 directly from the artist.
Eichmann escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp after World War II and fled to Argentina in 1950, where he lived under a pseudonym until he was snatched by Mossad agents in Buenos Aires in May 1960 and smuggled to Israel.
"Instead of spending time in English class during his senior year, [Trause] was captured by the Germans as a prisoner of war," Sforza said, adding that the veteran worked two jobs throughout his life to support his wife and two daughters.
" McCain was dragged out of Truc Bach lake and spent the next five-and-a-half years as a high-profile prisoner of war in Hoa Lo prison - the infamous "Hanoi Hilton' - where he said he and others were tortured.
John McCain, a Vietnam War veteran who spent five-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war, now supports fully ending a U.S. arms embargo on Vietnam as the country emerges as a key counter to China in the region.
He rails against the First Amendment protections the American media enjoys, pillories career civil servants, and has belittled those who have served and suffered, including the Muslim family of a slain soldier, and a former prisoner of war, the late Sen.
The SRAP and the National Intelligence Officer (NIO) provided an update to key committee members, including Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war and a critic of the Bergdahl/Taliban deal, about the status of talks with the Taliban.
Flake stood up for his fellow Arizona lawmaker by introducing himself to Trump as "the other senator from Arizona, the one who didn't get captured," referring to Trump's criticism of McCain's time as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.
John McCain -- a former Vietnam prisoner of war, 281-term U.S. Senator from Arizona and 2008 GOP Presidential nominee who battled an aggressive form of brain cancer in the latter part of his storied career -- has died ... TMZ has learned.
In Nagisa Ôshima's 1983 British / Japanese co-production Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, there's a striking scene in which David Bowie, playing a prisoner of war in a World War II Japanese camp, saves the life of one of his fellow captives.
Let's start here: A White House staffer made a "joke" about the death of a war hero, prisoner of war and a man who has spent the better part of the last four decades of his life in public service.
There might be something to that, but Trump's no-apology record extends far earlier than his time in the White House He didn't apologize during the 2016 campaign when he made fun of McCain for being a prisoner of war.
Sam Johnson (R-Texas), far right, poses for a photo during a ceremony on Tuesday at the National Museum of American History with items donated from his prisoner of war days in Vietnam on the anniversary of his 1973 release.
One of the very few major American politicians who did serve, under fire, is John McCain, and one of the first things Trump did in his race for president was to make fun of McCain's years as a prisoner of war.
Hours later, McCain told NBC News that it's fair to criticize a mission for failing and still hold respect for those who serve, noting his feelings about a failed mission to save him from a prisoner of war camp in Vietnam.
I imagine he'll move on to women judges because he's been insulting women so regularly, or maybe a judge with a disability, or perhaps one who was a former [prisoner of war] POW or African-American," Clinton said on MSNBC's "Maddow.
After a lengthy Gestapo interrogation, he was detained for nine months in Stalag Luft III, a German prisoner-of-war camp made famous in the 1963 film "The Great Escape," which recounted how 76 British and Allied aviators tunneled to freedom.
I know that my own not-so-distant ancestors -- a Serbian former prisoner of war with an eighth-grade education, a German nurse and their small child -- coming from devastated post-war Europe, would not have met these new requirements.
Her father moved to the United States before World War II. Ms. Feltrinelli would later recall the smell of death coming from a Russian prisoner-of-war camp that she passed every day on her way to school in Nazi Germany.
In a statement on Wednesday night, Mr. McCain, a former prisoner of war and the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said that "her refusal to acknowledge torture's immorality is disqualifying," and he urged his colleagues to vote against her.
Previous award recipients include Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush, former U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who survived an assassination attempt, U.S. Senator and former prisoner of war John McCain and U.S. Representative and civil rights leader John Lewis.
Tortured himself while a prisoner of war in Vietnam, McCain strongly opposed torture, and urged fellow senators not to confirm Trump's nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, Gina Haspel, because of her past ties to the CIA's "harsh interrogation" program.
McCain spent five and a half years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam's infamous "Hanoi Hilton" prison — but he could have avoided it, had he been willing to break the US military's Code of Conduct for Prisoners of War.

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