Okay, I wasn't going to post this, until I read about the 17 year old who was shot for kicking a McCain-Palin sign, and realized McCain deserves every last attack for the way he's run his divisive campaign. Apparently, McCain was involved in a major car crash at the entrance to a naval base.
Full story at the Huffington Post:
For the past two months, a major American magazine and an allied news service have been engaged in a legal battle with the United States Navy over records that they believe show that John McCain once was involved in an automobile accident that injured or, perhaps, killed another individual.
Vanity Fair magazine and the National Security News Service claim to have knowledge "developed from first-hand sources" of a car crash that involved then-Lt. McCain at the main gate of a Virginia naval base in 1964, according to legal filings. The incident has been largely, if not entirely, kept from the public.
The bigger question is whether McCain's Navy admiral father covered it up.
For the record, I'm less interested in what happened than in throwing McCain off message for the last few days of the campaign.
From McCain's biography:
The son and grandson of prominent Navy admirals, John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936. After graduating from the United States Naval Academy in 1958, McCain began a twenty-two year career as a naval aviator. In 1967, he was shot down over Vietnam and held as a prisoner-of-war in Hanoi for five and a half years (1967-1973), much of it in solitary confinement. He retired from the Navy as a Captain in 1981. McCain's naval honors include the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross.