Surprised this hasn't gotten any play here. Trump is taking flack for comments about McCain not being a hero.

So, what is an American Hero? Anyone in the military? a P.O.W.? a P.O.W. without a distinguished military career? Someone who was tortured? a run-of-the-mill infantryman in Iraq? A recruiter gunned down by a jihadi?

Seems to me, "hero" is a tremendously overused word these days--sort of a salve applied by people just to say something.

I don't consider McCain any sort of hero, but that doesn't mean his military career is diminished in my mind (can't stand him politically). I thought Trump pushed it a little with the comment about preferring people that "weren't captured."