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Originally Posted by O'Sullivan Bere
The idea that McCain, who served in the military, etc, didn't love his country beforehand is absurd In this case, John clearly meant that being cut off from the US and incarcerated in a torrid environment gave him such a greater appreciation of all the valuable things both big or small in the US that people take for granted. Deprivation does that. I see this in incarcerated prisoners all the time just how much upon reflection and viewing their situation as compared to when they were free. In McCain's case it was worse because in the US many of the abuses and neglects he experienced wouldn't even be allowed for prisoners.
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I don't get it though, like Impugn says the more we travel the more we appreciate our own land but in McCain's case the country left him to rot and it was the VC who wanted to let him go early and their mercy rather than our will to go in and get it him that showed, why that made him more loving of our country is somewhat parculiar but i suspect it came to him in the sense life in AZ isn't as bad as a torture camp across the other side of the world, i think its equal now that he's in DC.
