Stories have circulated for years that McCain's treatment as a POW weren't the way he described, several organizations exist to prove the truth is otherwise including Vietnam veterans against John McCain:
Additionally it seems that John McCain never felt compelled to pay tribute or honor the Vietnamese farmer that saved his life when his plane was shot down.
On October 26, 1967, Mai Van On ran from the safety of a bomb shelter at the height of an air raid and swam out into the lake where Lieutenant Commander McCain was drowning, tangled in his parachute cord after ejecting when his Skyhawk bomber was hit by a missile.
In an extraordinary act of compassion at a time when Vietnamese citizens were being killed by US aerial bombardments, he pulled a barely conscious McCain to the lake surface and, with the help of a neighbour, dragged him towards the shore.
Perhaps the rumored preferred treatment may help explain his recent acquiescence to allow torture of prisoners in military/CIA custody, perhaps his experience as a POW didn't expose him to torture or teach him that torture is wrong.
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