Here, I think, are the proper tone and frame for the McNasty POW story: [View All]

[Jackpine Radical]

McCain supported Bush's veto of the anti-torture bill, thereby endorsing the use of torture even though he knows from his own tragic personal experience that torture can be used to extract false confessions, such as when the North Vietnamese tortured him into signing a statement that he was a war criminal.

This approach does two things simultaneously--it brings the discourse into current relevance, and it puts his "heroism" into context.