Born amid the first flames of America's fight for freedom, I am the symbol of a  country ... They have prayed that they and their fellow citizens might continue to  enjoy the .... John McCain (AZ) tells the story of a U.S. Navy pilot named Mike  Campbell, ... POWs heard his screams of agony as the Vietnamese tortured him  and beat ...
Chain email · McCain tells of a fellow Vietnam POW who was beaten for  fashioning an American flag that became an inspirational symbol to fellow POWs.
They find it an inspiring symbol of the things they hold dear, and just seeing it ...  benefit of all of us, beat Mike Christian severely for the next couple of hours. ...  American POW's in Vietnamese prison camps fashioned hand-made American  flags ... what those hand-made flags meant to them and their fellow prisoners of  war.
Sep 6, 2016 ... Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge tells the true story of Desmond Doss, who enlists in  ... He chose to become a medic in order to adhere to both the Sixth- thou ... The  US soldiers scaled the escarpment only to be met by Japanese machine .... 'His  name became a symbol throughout the 77th Infantry Division for ...
Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., Raising the American Flag on the Moon. 3. ... John McCain, “ The Pledge of Allegiance at the Hanoi Hilton” ..... It was also during the Civil War  that the flag became known as “Old Glory,” a ...... And yet again the test is applied,  my fellow countrymen, a new sort of ...... points of the conduct of prisoners of war.
McCain tells of a fellow Vietnam POW who was beaten for fashioning an American flag that became an inspirational symbol to fellow POWs.