Vietnam: McCain helped ‘heal the wounds of war’

Source: The Hill | August 27, 2018 | Brett Samuels

Vietnam’s foreign minister is praising the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for “healing the wounds” of the Vietnam War, Reuters reported.

“For both the government of Vietnam and its people, Senator McCain was a symbol of his generation of senators, and of the veterans of the Vietnam war,” Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh wrote in a condolence book on Monday at the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi, according to the news service.

“It was he who took the lead in significantly healing the wounds of war, and normalizing and promoting the comprehensive Vietnam-U.S. partnership,” Minh wrote.

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Reuters reported that Vietnamese citizens and U.S. citizens visiting the country have turned a monument near the site where he was captured and taken prisoner during the war into a makeshift memorial. Visitors have left notes, flowers, flags and other items.

McCain was captured after his plane crashed during a mission in Vietnam. He suffered multiple broken bones, was tortured and beaten and refused to be released ahead of other U.S. soldiers who were taken prisoner before him.

McCain was held prisoner for five years, and later pushed for normalizing relations between the U.S. and Vietnam.

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