If you read the first article, it was those who served on the USS Forrestal at the time who spoke to the reporter about the 1967 incident. They have that right.

As for the second article, I personally know a family member of one of those left behind, a family who had photographic evidence of their family member alive around the time McCain and Kerry were burying the evidence, 20 years after he went missing. One of the family testified before Congress and Mr. McCain, to no avail. They subsequently received the remains of their family member back in a box. They have the right to question and judge.

War is brutal, as you say and as my own son tells me. It should never be made worse by people like John McCain, nor should we allow his kind to do the things he did to our own service men and women without consequences, no matter what he may have done that we find admirable along the way.

The fact that his political actions may be compromised due to his previous failures is disturbing.