VP Harris laid flowers @ the monument where McCain's plane was shot down on 3yr anniv of his passing

[PunkinPi]

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In the pouring rain here in Hanoi, VP Harris took a moment of silence and laid flowers at the monument where John McCain’s plane was shot down by the North Vietnamese in 1967. It’s the three-year anniversary of McCain’s death.

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The @VP visited the John McCain memorial in Hanoi where his plane was shot down by the North Vietnamese in 1967. It’s the 3-year anniversary of his death. She told us he’s “an American hero” and “loved our country.” She said she was honored to serve alongside him in the Senate.

Our MVP is a class act!

[CurtEastPoint]

1. I cannot picture any 'pube doing that same kind and thoughtful gesture.

[PunkinPi]

3. Certainly not in this day and age. nt

[DENVERPOPS]

24. Totally Agree CEP

Any monument to Trump, or his grave, will need to be surrounded for 10' around with concrete instead of grass, and have a bunch of drains installed in the Concrete slabs...........

[CurtEastPoint]

25. or this, for our convenience, so that more than 1 can be served at a time.

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[bullwinkle428]

4. K&R. That ignorant daughter of his will still figure out a way

to criticize this gesture of kindness.

[GPV]

6. I'm sure!

[hlthe2b]

7. Yup... my first thought. Meghan McCain is a scourge on her father's memory.

[aquamarina]

22. How sad that that was my first thought as well.

[betsuni]

27. Of course she did. Didn't even address the snark directly to Harris.

Said: If you want to honor my father's legacy, you would spend every second getting every American and Afghan ally out of harm's way in Afghanistan. He understood sacrifice and loyalty to the people he served with.

Disgusting.

[Botany]

5. Class

n/t

[machoneman]

8. Trump must be burning! Imagine this scene over his grave. NOT!

[wnylib]

17. He will have to have an anonymous grave or

else be cremated and have his ashes scattered because of the number of people who will want to desecrate his remains.

Imagine the stench if he is cremated. Talk about air pollution!

[Lonestarblue]

9. Contrast this with Trump standing with John Kelly at his son's grave.

He commented that he didn’t understand why anyone joined the military because there wasn’t anything in it for them. I’m sure he meant there was no profit in it because greed is his primary motivator. The concepts of honor and loyalty to country are far beyond his ability to comprehend.

[George II]

10. I'm sure Meghan McCain will find some way to bash this.

[NurseJackie]

12. And there will be some on Twitter who go into hysterics because...

... he was an evil-Republican!

[niyad]

23. At least she won't be doing it on "The View".

[Niagara]

13. A beautiful gesture from a beautiful VP.

[NBachers]

14. Eat shit, pukes

[Thunderbeast]

15. I am a bit astonished

that there IS a monument to John McCain in Hanoi. While not vindictive, it honors the people that shot him down.

Here is the text of that monument (translated).

“Here on 26 October 1967 at Truc Bach Lake in the capital city of Hanoi John Sidney McCain was shot out of the sky in his A4 aircraft by local citizens militia defending Yen Phu. There were 10 other planes shot down on the same day.”


I am wondering if the Vice President has now earned the "Jane Fonda" treatment from the right.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

16. Me too. You know they would go after her no matter what.

If she didn’t visit the memorial they would call her disrespectful and un-American and a troop hater.

Anyway, it’s a nice gesture on the VP’s part. We have a lot to atone for in that country. This is what you get with adults running the show.


Still, it brings home what a waste that war was —

50,000 plus dead Americans and 1 million dead civilians. We get kicked out in defeat and they are building McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises a decade later. Now it’s a beautiful vacation spot.

[Paladin]

18. Nice gesture.

I'm sure the Repubes will do everything possible to trash the VP's classy act.

[malthaussen]

19. Wow, there's a monument?

I wonder if there are monuments to all the aviators shot down in Vietnam.

-- Mal

[hibbing]

20. I love this n/t

[niyad]

21. Our wonderful. MVP.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

26. This makes me smile

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