CAPTAIN SCOTT O'GRADY HAD THE grace to blush when America welcomed him home with the kind of publicity once lavished on Douglas MacArthur. O'Grady had eaten grass and ants for six days of adventurous Bosnian discomfort.
On the other hand, Navy pilot John McCain, shot down over Hanoi in 1967, spent 5-1/2 years in enemy captivity, including 31 months in solitary. Brutally beaten and otherwise tortured, repeatedly on the edge of death, McCain survived by drawing on some fierce inner resource. When the North Vietnamese--knowing that McCain's father was the famous Admiral Jack McCain, commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific...
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