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Election 2008

How McCain Turned His Back on the Vietnamese Man Who Saved His Life

By Norman Stockwell, AlterNet. Posted October 28, 2008.


Forty-one years after McCain was shot down in Vietnam, the man who saved his life has died in obscurity.
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Norman Stockwell is a freelance journalist and operations coordinator at WORT-FM community radio in Madison, Wis. In March he traveled to Vietnam to cover the 40th anniversary of the My Lai Massacre.

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