"I was watching the forum last night and decided that since I hadn't eaten yet, I would try to listen to John McCain speak. I was doing OK with the "my friends" and the evil chuckle when I heard him talk about his POW story of the cross in the dirt. That was when I couldn't take it anymore.
"UPDATE: This story was actually excerpted from "The Gulag Archipelago" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, which was released in the US in 1973.
"UPDATE X2: It seems that McCain is a bit of a Solzhenitsyn fan, as evidenced in his article in the NY Sun here. Thanks to Turing for the link.
"UPDATE X3: May other great Kossacks have expanded on my diary. Check out their great diaries.
"TomP: Cross in the Dirt, a recap of what we know
"Calouste: No "cross in the sand" for McCain in 1973
"Throwing Stones: McCain lies, contradicts himself on Cross story"
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