early release and my treatment. the treatment got very much worse. what followed was months of nonstop beatings, hanging from his wrists, solitary confinement. at one point mccain says he was even beaten by ten guards at a time. his fellow prisoners literally had to feed him, right? they did. they had to beige hi bathe hi cleanse him, help himmer is vive with someone who is near death with a bucket of water and maybe a sponge. by august, 1968, mccain couldn t take it anymore. he signed a statement that he was an american black, you know, air pilot, et cetera, and admitted to their claims against him. how much did that moment, the vietnamese breaking him, affect him from there on out? i think he wanted to die. i think he felt he had let the