objective_guy

What?? This makes me very curious! Could you give more details? What class is this for? What grade level? What kind of school? I find this disturbing.

To the original poster: I am very curious, do you have any children? Also if you were the mother of that "un-aging" child what would you do?

Makes sense, point taken! Thanks for setting me straight! haha huffy eh? Cranky bastard would be more accurate I think!

haha I am chilled out! Of course my comments were not directed at every one!! It just seemed ridiculous that there is even a thread debating a decision that a man in this circumstance had to make!

Jesus, no offense, but all this armchair general crap is making me so sick that I just had to post. I'm a soldier and I can't claim to have been in a situation anywhere near as bad as McCain was probably in, but I have been through the suck. It's real easy to criticize a man's decision while you're typing away on your computer in your air conditioned study sipping on iced tea, isn't it? You guys are looking waaaaayyy too far into this. It's as simple as this...those men were his brothers and whether they were going to die in that camp or leave, they were going to do it together. Of course every man has his breaking point I imagine, but before you go into these kind of situations, you have to come to terms with the fact that some fucked up shit may very well happen, and you all have to come to an agreement that no matter what, you will be there and have each other's back. Ever been in a situation where you are so physically and mentally exhausted and beat down that even the simple task of putting one foot over the other to keep forward momentum is enough to make you want to cry? When every cell in your body is telling you to quit, you don't give two fucks about "the intel you can bring back, what you can tell the American people about your treatment, and the nature of the enemy!" The only thing that keeps you going is looking to your left and right and seeing that your buddies are there sucking right along side of you. There's a certain power in that solidarity. Though I wouldn't have the audacity to criticize a man in that situation who decided one way or the other, I would think that I would have made the same decision as McCain.