The Senate’s Unremembered Ex-POWThe American Spectator

The Senate’s Unremembered Ex-POWThe American Spectator: His path to distinguished service in the United States Senate led through the Naval Academy, aerial combat over hostile territory, and long years of confinement, beatings, and torture in the Hanoi Hilton. He was a man worth remembering. No, his name was not John McCain. Six years before McCain’s election to the Senate, Alabama voters sent retired Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton to Washington’s upper chamber. Both the parallels and the divergences in Denton and McCain’s lives tell something about the last few decades of our political history. Twelve years older than McCain, Denton was born in Mobile in 1924, the