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Senator John McCain survived one of the worst accidents in Navy history.
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John McCain Escapes Explosions
Flopping Aces — 41 years ago tomorrow, on July 29. 1967 a missile accidentally fired from an aircraft on the deck of the USS Forrestal.  It flew across the flight deck, slammed into another plane, detonated that aircraft, its fuel, and its weapons.  Shrapnel from that explosion punctured a dozen other aircraft that were waiting at the aft end of the ship-fully fueled and loaded with bombs for a massive airstrike.  In the cockpit of the one of those planes-sitting right next to the plane that had accidentally launched the first missile, was John McCain.  Less that 2 seconds after that first missile launched, the entire flight deck was an ...

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On This Day In 1967... "Forrestal"- Another Heroic McCain Story
Gateway Pundit — On this day in 1967, one hundred and thirty-four men died and sixty-two were wounded in a fire on an aircraft carrier, the USS Forrestal. Among the planes waited to take off, a missile misfired and hit another plane, sparking a massive inferno. ...

BuzzFlash Mailbag for October 09, 2008
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — BUZZFLASH MAILBAG Want to join the conversation? Share your thoughts with other Mailbag readers by clicking here . You also may comment below; post articles yourself at BuzzFlash.net ; or send urls for BuzzFlash to post to: www.buzzflash.com/contact/newstip.html . Subject: Wachovia Bank lending 8000000 to republican party This is outrageous and it should be the headline story on BuzzFlash and the MSM. Once this is televised - if it is - it should finish John McCain AND the Republican Party on Election Day-as it should be!!! FACING SOUTH INVESTIGATION: How did Republicans get an $8 million bailout from ...

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