Opinion: In Wednesday’s Letters to the editor
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On Wednesday’s Letters page, readers register displeasure with a Times story about John McCain’s early career as a (perhaps impulsive) fighter pilot. Writes Howard Hambrecht, of Toluca Lake:
It takes a special breed of individual to be a fighter pilot--they are cocky, bright, risk-taking and extremely coordinated individuals. And thank God for them! ...No mention is made of his turning down the opportunity to be released from captivity early...saying he was not leaving unless all his men were released. McCain then spend more than four years being tortured in prison. To me and to thousands of veterans and other Americans this demonstrates the character of this man.
Thoughts on Patt Morrison’s column on the Bradley effect, old trucks and port pollution, and pirates, too.
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