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Is it true that, due to injuries as a POW, John McCain?

cannot reach up to brush his own hair?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    True.

  • 1 decade ago

    I didn't notice and think to asking him that when he visited me in Ramadi, Iraq in 2006. It wasn't important to ask a Senator and former POW and fellow wounded servicemember those types of things,

    but on the other hand it is possible:

    "In August of 1968, a program of severe torture began on McCain. McCain was subjected to repeated beatings and rope bindings, at the same time as he was suffering from dysentery. After four days, McCain made an anti-American propaganda "confession". He has always felt that his statement was dishonorable, but as he would later write, "I had learned what we all learned over there: Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine."His injuries left him permanently incapable of raising his arms above his head. He subsequently received two to three beatings per week because of his continued refusal to sign additional statements. Other American POWs were similarly tortured and maltreated in order to extract "confessions" and propaganda statements, with many enduring even worse treatment than McCain."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain

    Source(s): US Army vet
  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    due to being tortured by being hung by his arms, he cannot raise his arms very high. whether this keeps him from combing his hair though, i dont know. he doesnt have much hair left anyway.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    That's true. His arms were repeatedly broken.

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  • 1 decade ago

    i dunt no

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