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McCain: Trump Should Apologize to Heroes

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Says he’s not one.

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In Sen. John McCain’s first public response to Donald Trump saying he is “not a real war hero... because he was captured,” the former prisoner of war said Trump “owes an apology to the families of those who have sacrificed in conflict and those who have undergone a prison experience in serving their country.” McCain continued: “The great honor of my life was to serve in the company of heroes, I’m not a hero,” but his commanding and the 55,000 names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial were. “Those are the people he owes an apology to.” Trump said he was angry that McCain called his supporters “crazies.” McCain, smiling: “I thought it was a term of endearment.”

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