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John McCain shows the qualities of leadership, courage, experience, faithfulness to his country, determination, reliability,
and the openminded personality to lead this country successfully. With these qualities Americans can sleep soundly and
trust that their country is in good hands. John McCain will do all he can to help Americans financially, mentally, and
physically.
John McCain was also the Christian leader of POW in Vietnam. He stated: "I was selected to be room chaplain because
I had an abundance of religiosity... I had gone to church all my life. I had gone to an Episcopal school where we went to
church chapel every morning. I went to the Naval Academy where chapel attendance was mandatory. I knew all of the words to
the Nicene Creed and the Apostles’ Creed. So I had an ability to lead a church service."
John McCain was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam when he had an experience of
religious affirmation he would recount many years later. One night, after his captors had painfully bound McCain, a guard
entered his room and silently loosened the ropes that pinned his head between his legs. Some months later, on Christmas Day,
the same guard approached McCain in a courtyard during a short reprieve from solitary confinement. The guard drew a cross
in the dirt and looked at McCain without uttering a word. Then, after rubbing away the cross with his sandal, the guard walked
away.
"My friends, I will never forget that man; I will never forget that moment," the Republican presidential candidate
said during a public appearance featured on his campaign website. "And I will never forget the fact that no matter where you
are, no matter how difficult things are, there's always going to be someone of your faith and your belief and your devotion
to your fellow man who will pick you up and help you out and bring you through."
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