The men flew the F-105D in combat in Vietnam. Kirk was shot down on his ... Future Arizona senator and 2006 Republican presidential candidate John McCain was among his cellmates.

John McCain, the man America knew as a survivor ... Post in 2000 that he thought about entering politics after his return from Vietnam. He has told various newspapers that briefly thought of ...

John McCain, a giant of American politics who died on Saturday at 81, was perhaps most profoundly shaped by his military service and nearly six years as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.

Paul Galanti, who was held as a POW with John McCain during the Vietnam War, recalls the ailing senator as "one of the most courageous men I've known, with a hilarious sense of humor" Ailing Sen.

John McCain ... Sen. McCain, his father, and his grandfather all served in the Navy, and the late politician was held as a prisoner of war for five and a half years during the Vietnam War.