honor slip away from him. he felt shame that he had let the country down, he had let his father down, his family down, his compatriots down. >> everybody, but mostly me. mostly me. >> how's that? >> because the standards that i set for myself. >> he would be forever haunted by the shame he felt. yet, in the short-term his fellow pows pulled him through. >> get up off the floor, go back at them. you lost a round, we'll win the fight. you always go back into the fight, but you always come back. >> but it was really about coming home. and in march of 1973, after more than five 1/2 years of torture, isolation, and illness, mccain was one of 100 pows released by the north vietnamese. >> of course, we were very pa