Joseph P. Duggan, Spectator: The Senate’s Unremembered Ex-POW
Such a contrast to the excess of the last several days.
His path to distinguished service in the United States Senate led through the Naval Academy, aerial combat over hostile territory, and long years of confinement, beatings, and torture in the Hanoi Hilton.
He was a man worth remembering.
No, his name was not John McCain.
Six years before McCain’s election to the Senate, Alabama voters sent retired Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton to Washington’s upper chamber.
Both the parallels and the divergences in Denton and McCain’s lives tell something about the last few decades of our political history.
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WNU Editor: U.S. Senator Jeremiah Denton was not politically useful to the main stream media, so he never got the plaudits. And that in a nutshell illustrates how the U.S. main stream media operates in covering U.S. political news.
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