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posted Friday, 5 September 2008

In having a discussion about 'firsts' in the Oval Office -- the potential for the first black president of the U.S., or the first woman in the Veep Seat -- ArcherVision and I started wondering if there had ever been a president who was also a P.O.W., as was McCain.

After a little walk through Wikipedia, we discovered that George Washington and Andrew Jackson were P.O.Ws. Washington was captured by the French during the French and Indian War, and Jackson was captured with his brother at the age of 13 during the American Revolutionary War; he was a courier.

Other interesting P.O.W.s include Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Francois Mitterand, and of course Kurt Vonnegut.


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1. Joe B. left...
Friday, 5 September 2008 12:54 pm :: http://www.zerosummer.typepad.com

And I'll bet Teddy Roosevelt knew how to field dress a moose.


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