Not a lot of sun in solitary confinement

A July 29 Campaign Digest item incorrectly said that Sen. John McCain is a melanoma survivor who suffered severe sun damage from his years in Vietnamese prison camps. In fact, McCain was in solitary confinement for more than two of the 51/2 years he was in Hanoi, and his exposure to the sun while in captivity was extremely rare, according to his campaign staff. McCain has said many times that he got many sunburns as a youth, which likely led to melanoma later in life. Link

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This entry was written by Craig Silverman, posted on August 6, 2008 at 8:00 am, filed under Newspapers and tagged . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.
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