mccain iii, united states navy. his wife carol, sons douglas and andrew and daughter sidney live in orange park, florida. >> i just remember he was really skinny. he was just kind of all bones in his face, and he was limping quite noticeably. one of his arms he couldn't lift any higher than about this. but i just remember the smile was the same and the humor was the same, there was still a twinkle in his eye. it was like right out of the movies. >> i don't think i really understood what was going on. i was really like who is this guy? what is he doing here? did not understand the whole concept of his return from vietnam. >> john was not angry. he was just happy to be home. he told me every single thing that he could remember, and i wanted him to. i wanted him to just talk and talk and talk and not keep that stuff locked up. >> when we came home, i wanted to know what happened during all those years. think of yourself going 5 1/2 years with only information provided to you by your communist captors. i wanted to know

states navy, serving in vietnam. it was october of 1967 when mccain was flying a bombing mission when his plane was shot down. and he then spent the next five and a half years as a prisoner of war, enduring torture, and solitary confinement at the hands of his captors. a french jushlist videotaped these first moments of his imprisonment which were recently feature in the ken burns documentary the vietnam war. >> i was on a flight over the city of hanoi. and i was bombing. and i was hit by either a missile or anti-aircraft fire. i'm not sure which. and the plane continued straight down. i ejected and broke my leg and both arms. and went into a lake, parachuted into a lake. and i was picked up by some north vietnamese and taken to the hospital, where i almost died. >> my next guest served and lived through that horror alongside john mccain. he is retired navy fighter pilot captain charlie plum. captain plum, an honor sir. thank you for your service to this great country. i'm so sorry about the loss of your friends, you

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. >> i wanted to talk to you especially because you are an admiral in the united states navy. you just mentioned in the break and i didn't know this about you, you taught naval history. >> i did. >> so that basically means teaching about the mccain family. >> absolutely. i was not smart enough to get into the naval academy but they let me go back and teach when i was a young lieutenant. >> he did graduate fifth from the bottom of his class. >> he did, but at least he got there. i didn't even get into the school. but you honestly cannot teach about the 20th century navy, certainly the last half of the 20th century, without teaching the mccain family. his grandfather won the navy cross, the second highest award to the medal of honor for his command of carrier strike forces in the pacific, including the air campaign over guadal canal. his father and him -- his father was the commander of all the pacific forces in vietnam and became a staunch defender of the vietnamization of that war. and of course you have senator mccain himself who was a naval aviator in combat, shot down, of c

and john became the navy liaison officer in the united states senate. there's an office, then it used to be on the basement floor. members of the military who are assigned to senators when they travel abroad to meet with heads of state or other foreign dignitaries. and john had been recently released from the hanoi hilton, a genuine hero, and he became the navy liaison. for some reason we hit it off in the beginning. we were both full of dreams and ambitions and an overwhelming desire to make the time we had there worthwhile. try to do the right thing. to think about how we could make things better for the country we loved so much. and john and i ended up traveling every time i went anywhere, i took john with me or john to be me with him. we were in china, japan, russia, germany, france, england, turkey, all over the world. tens of thousands of miles. and we would sit on that plane and late in the night, when everyone else was asleep, and just talk. getting to know one another. we'd talk about family. we'd talk about politics, we'd talk about internatio

, and all the way to his favorite battles on the floor of the united states senate. in 2008, he electrified an arena in minneapolis proclaiming we're americans, and we never give up. we never quit. we never hide from history. we make history. those weren't the empty words of some politician grabbing the microphone and the spotlight for a few fleeting moments. men had followed john mccain into battle, and we knew we could do the same. this man was trusted, and he was tested. qualities in increasingly short supply. we sometimes think that politics is life and death, but john mccain knew better. because he had actually seen death and dying and tragedy. make no mistake, he fought like hell for the causes he believed in. he plowed through election after election with the energy and focus of a warrior. but along the way, he did it with humor and humanity. and without compromising the principles he held so dear, i would rather lose an election than lose a war, and we knew he was telling us the truth. in that way, john mccain was about more than politics. he brought us above

then in 1986, mccain began his storied career in the united states senate. a staunch conservative, he frequently reached across the ice recall to the consternation of fellow republicans. he garnered respect from democrats and republicans alike and kept a sense of humor and accepted his well-earned status of a maverick. >> i've been called a maverick, someone who marches to the beat of his own drum. and the american people know me very well. and that is independent and a maverick of the senate. and i'm happy to say that i've got a partner that's a good maverick along with me now. i'm a maverick. no one expected us to agree on everything. maverick i can do. but messiah is above my pay grade. >> reid galen now joins us by phone from park city, utah, a republican political strategist and the former campaign manager for senator john mccain's presidential campaign in 2008. reid, thank you for taking time with us this day. look, you were with senator mccain during one of his boldest moments, running for the highest office in the land. how do you remember those mome

chapman, united states air force. for ga lantly at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty. technical sergeant john a. chapman distinguished himself through heroism as a special combat controller attached to a navy sea, air and land s.e.a.l. team conducting operations in takur ghar, afghanistan, in 2002. the team's helicopter was ambushed, calling a teammate to fall in combatants below. the sergeant and the team voluntarily reinserted on to the snow-capped mountain boo the heart of a known enemy stronghold. without regard for his own safety, sergeant chapman immediately engaged, moving in the direction of the closest enemy position despite coming under heavy fire of multiple directions. he fearlessly charged an enemy bunker, up a sleep incline and into hostile fire engaging the enemy. upon reaching the bunker, the sergeant assaulted and cleared the position killing all enemy occupants. with complete disregard for his own life, sergeant chapman deliberately moved from cover 12 meters from the enemy and expos