Updating something I mentioned in an earlier post about John McCain's story as a POW and a cross being drawn in the dirt by one of his captor on Christmas day.
What we know now:
1. McCain never spoke or wrote about this incident until 1999 as he geared up for the 2000 presidential run.
2. The story was not stolen from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's time in the Soviet gulags, though the history of this piece of fiction seems to have started in Republican circles in the early 1980s.
3. McCain's story can never be verified only disproved since it was only him and his guard who were present when it happened. No fellow POWs can prove or disprove McCain's claim.
Speaking of POWs, one of his fellow prisoners at the Hanoi Hilton wrote a blistering op-ed on Monday. Go and read.
And here is the latest reaction from the McCain campaign concerning the cross story.
_John
image: "The Cross (Portra 400:001:31)" from flickr kukkurovaca
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