And the draft dodging Clown in Chief who said Sen. John McCain is not a hero because he got shot down... How does one respond to that?
Ignoring the comment above, the proposition is true - as remarked after GW1 when the question was asked why aircrew who had been shot down did not get medals, the response was we get medals for shooting the enemy down, not the other way round.
However, I would distance myself from the comments about his behaviour as a POW. The reported facts concerning his refusal to cooperate, his subsequent punishments which he bore stoically and his refusal to accept early repatriation because of its propaganda value to the enemy is generally accepted as both heroic and gallant.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-...ccains-heroism