No contact with McCain since he went to San Francisco area and I was mostly in San Diego. We did have Admiral Stockdale who ran for VP with Ross Perot. My roomate in VF-11 on Forrestal was in the plane that had its missile accidentally fire into McCain's causing the "Great Fire of the Forrestal". Our squadron had 44 deaths in the fire since our crew berthing area was just under the flight deck where the explosions went off. I joined after the ship was repaired. One of my jobs at COMNAVAIRPAC was to supervise the SERE training for aviators at Warner Springs, Ca where we gave us each an opportunity to experience being "waterboarded". I can testify from experience that it will make you want to talk and if that was torture, it did not leave any longlasting effects on most of us. The SERE training did generate an accident or two and an occasional lawsuit, but not on my watch. As part of the AIRPAC job, I worked with Chuck Law from USS Pueblo, Doug Hegdahl an approved early releasee from North Vietnam, Jess McElroy former POW in Korea and others in training aviators about preparations for possible life in captivity and with Intel Officers about what we knew and did not know about captives in North Vietnam. It was in that job that I wrote the Navy's OP Plan for Operation Homecoming and we had a meeting in San Diego a year before we knew anything about a Release to get plans in place for all the logistics of what we would do if they were all released at once, including Medical, Chaplains, Family Services, Intelligence, etc. Sorry. Guess you pushed a button.